Cognitive impairment associated with habitual nitrous oxide abuse in a 63-year-old health professional.

Abstract

MicroCog ordeal results and supplemental neuropsychological ordeal findings are reported concerning a male health professional who had abused nitrous oxide (N2O) upon a regular basis for more than 20 years. At the time of the examination, the health professional had abstained from N2O use for 12 month experiment findings indicate that the patient had experienceed a general decrement in cognitive functioning. Spatial functioning and reaction times were better preserv than attention, mental rule verbal and arithmetic reasoning, and verbal memory. His verbal memory los was particularly harsh but abstract reasoning and practical social brains remained intact. Marked visual memory