Abstract

CAMELO ROA, Sandra Milena  and  ARDILA, Alfredo. Effects of Short- And Long-Term Scopolamine Intoxication on Memory and Conceptual Skills. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.2, pp.335-346. ISSN 1794-9998.

The intoxication by scopolamine is the second cause of acute intoxication in Bogotá and probably in others cities of Colombia. The use of this toxic in criminal attacks represents a social and health problem of immeasurable proportions. The knowledge of its long term effects in cognitive functions as the memory and conceptual abilities is scarce. In this investigation the effects of intoxication by scopolamine were evaluated in tow different times between a group of 20 people into the 15 and 60 years old, using categorization and classification upon memory and conceptual abilities. The first evaluation was carried out five days after clinic treatments and the second evaluation was made six months later. As the exposed group and as a non exposed group was evaluated parallelly in both moments of the evaluation with the Wechsler memory test, the figure of Rey-Osterrieth test, the Classification of Cards of Wisconsin test, and the progressive matrix of WAIS III subtest. The results suggest that the intoxication by scopolamine causes deterioration in memory and conceptual abilities in short and long term.

Keywords : scopolamine; intoxication; memory and conceptual abilities.

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