Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Development and Assessment of Drugs That Would Enhance Cognition

Impairments in memoty and related cognitive functions are common to a wide array of neuropsychiatric syndromes as well as the result of highly varied environmental conditions. It is therefore not surprising that the determinants of these many forms of impaired memoty are also quite varied. Likewise, no single type of treatment is likely to be useful for all forms of memoty impairment.