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Can clonazepam cause permanent cognitive deficits?
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Hi there : cognitive dysfunction improves after benzodiazepines are withdrawn, but many patients don’t return to levels of functioning that matched benzodiazepine-free controls. Neuroimaging studies have found transient changes in the brain after benzodiazepine administration but no brain abnormalities in patients treated long term with benzodiazepines. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15762814/
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