Cognition is the mental process of understanding, reasoning, and thinking. Impaired cognition can result from brain injury, disease, aging, or psychological issues. Therapy and medication can manage some cases, but cognitive impairment due to aging may lead to dementia with no cure.
Cognition refers to mental processes that involve the use of the brain as part of the daily functions of understanding, reasoning and thinking. This process is very important for carrying out daily activities related to and deriving from the thought process. As such, impaired cognition is used to describe a situation where this process has been impaired or negatively impacted in some way. The effect of this impairment is evident in the way it hinders the ability to effectively use the brain to perform its normal functions.
A cognitive impairment can be the result of an accident involving a brain injury or it can be the result of some type of disease or condition. Cognitive impairment is also the consequence of normal aging processes whereby mental processes gradually begin to degrade due to general physical decline of the whole body. Sometimes impaired cognition can be caused by some sort of psychological issue which can be a response to extreme stressors in the form of trauma resulting from causes such as abuse and other conditions such as PTSD.
In some cases, cognitive impairment can be managed through the application of therapy or through the dual management techniques of psychotherapy and psychiatric treatments which may involve the use of medications. This is only possible where the altered cognitive processes result from causes such as trauma, which can be physical or psychological. For example, therapy and medications may be used to manage a case of cognitive impairment that occurs as a result of minor brain damage following an accident. In this case, the affected individual can gradually be taught to use his mental faculties once more. An individual suffering from impaired cognition that is a consequence of the abuse can be taught to overcome the factors leading up to the condition through processes which may involve talk therapy to address the underlying factors constituting the stressors, as well as applying of psychiatric evaluation and medications.
When cognitive impairment is a consequence of the natural processes of aging, options for managing the condition may not be as straightforward a process. This is because cognitive impairment due to aging is usually a precursor to dementia. It usually manifests itself in the form of mild cognitive impairment where the individual gradually begins to forget events. When this type of impaired cognition gets worse over time, it develops into full-blown dementia, a condition that has no cure.
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