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ReviewDer Nervenarzt2026

[Mental diseases and driving ability-An update].

Alexander Brunnauer, Peter Zwanzger, Gerd Laux

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Review in Der Nervenarzt, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexander BrunnauerKompetenzzentrum Neuropsychologie und Kognitive Therapie (KONEKT), kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Wasserburg am Inn, Deutschland. Alexander.Brunnauer@kbo.de.
Peter ZwanzgerKompetenzzentrum Neuropsychologie und Kognitive Therapie (KONEKT), kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Wasserburg am Inn, Deutschland.
Gerd LauxKlinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Deutschland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Driving has a high priority as it is often a guarantee for participation in professional and social life. For patients as well as for the treating physicians, the topic is associated with great uncertainty and is often proactively not addressed. In Germany the notification of diseases that could limit driving safety or fitness to drive is not mandatory but there is a duty to exercise caution to ensure that safe driving is not impaired by physical or mental illness or by the intake of medications. Treating clinicians, in turn, have a duty to inform the patient; they are required to inform about the risks of the disease, the treatment and potential consequences for daily life. Mental illnesses can restrict driving safety or in some cases even nullify the fitness to drive; however, broad restrictions for patients with a mental illness cannot be derived from empirical data so that a case by case clarification and counselling regarding driving safety and fitness to drive are indicated.

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Assessment criteriaDriving safetyFitness to driveLegal aspectsMental illnesses

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