Common medications linked to subtle shifts in cognitive performance, study finds

Common medications linked to subtle shifts in cognitive performance, study finds

A large-scale study published in Brain and Behavior has found that some widely used medications may have subtle but meaningful associations with cognitive performance—both positive and negative—when considered across entire populations. By analyzing data from more than half a million individuals in the United Kingdom and validating the findings in two additional cohorts, researchers developed a “cognitive footprint” framework to estimate how dif…