"Rather than positive effects, antipsychotics may have adverse effects on cognition. First-generation antipsychotics have been shown to impair procedural learning and memory, especially at high doses [7, 8]." This is another reason why I'd like to get off of antipsychotics. I'll be at work and then I'll just not have the long term memory to remember, at a later date, the things I was taught. I have to repeat the process rather than remembering after the first time. It's gotten worse after switching to risperdal. Thinking about switching to a new med until I have the right to refuse it again. Just gonna do some thorough research on some this time around rather than letting the doctors choose. If there's nothing I like, then I'm throwing my meds away after this blood test.