Cognition
Perhaps you don’t feel you think as clearly as you used to, or perhaps you’ve been told that you show signs of “cognitive concern” or “cognitive difficulties”. Cognition covers a wide range of mental processes and can be impacted by numerous conditions, factors, and syndromes. The following articles explore the most commonly experienced symptoms, syndromes, and questions related to human cognition.
Cognition FAQ
It would take a long series of textbooks to outline all of cognition, but here we try to give the basics.
Dementia 101
They get frustrated every time they misplace their keys, put the milk in the cabinet, or walk into a room and have no idea why they went there in the first place. The reality is that Alzheimer’s is unlikely because they remember that they forgot.
The Importance of Sleep
If our culture focused as much on sleep as our myths suggest it should, I probably wouldn’t have any patients. Out of all of the various treatments in psychiatry and neurology, from diet and exercise to supplements and medications, improving sleep is probably the most universal and consistent treatment available to patients, and one of the hardest.