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cognition

In psychology, a general term covering the functions involved in synthesizing information - for example, perception (seeing, hearing, and so on), attention, memory, and reasoning.



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This spiral relationship evolves over time and is exemplified by the following: A co-existing cognitive disorder such as vascular or Alzheimer's dementia attendant to diabetes may erode a person's ability to understand how to take blood glucose measurements and what to do about resultant readings, eroding self-management of the diabetes.
I'd had trouble getting approval for use of the van, primarily because they wanted me to have "more cognitive disorder.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, penetrates some people's brain tissue, where it can remain dormant for many years before causing cognitive disorders.
 
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