Evaluación de atención y memoria en sujetos drogodependientes.

Abstract

The exposure to psychoactive substances may predispose the individual to suffer alterations cognitive order. Attention and memory are the functions that are commonly affected. Objetive: The present study evaluated the levels of attention and memory in patients with use disorder by substance use in three specialized centers. Method: It is an exploratory-descriptive study with a 60 participants. The neuropsychological evaluation was performed with the Neuropsi battery for attention and memory. The analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics with frequencies and percentages. Results: In this case was observed that the researched population showed a greater deterioration in the area of memory with a 70% of alteration, while in the attention was evidenced 33.3% of deficit. Working memory is preserved in most of the population. Conclusions: The results indicate that cognitive deterioration in attention and memory levels are present in subjects with substance use disorder being the memory the most affected function. There was not a considerable relationship between the time of consumption and cognitive damage.