06-06-2011, 10:11 PM
Hey people, just found out as part of Becker muscular dystrophy I have a few Cognitive Issues that is part of my condition thats why I find it hard to explain thing at times. Ive just found this out today.
What is Cognition?
Cognition refers to a whole range of different intellectual processes our brains undertake to perform tasks and keep us functional. An easy way to understand cognition is to think of it in terms of memory and thinking.
When we can think clearly and remember things well, our cognitive ability is good since we have the information immediately to hand.
If either memory, or thinking were somehow disrupted, then our ability to process information would be impaired.
Description of the how we use our cognitive skills:
to focus, maintain and divide attention (concentration)
to learn and remember new things
to think, reason and solve problems
to plan, carry out and monitor our own activities
to understand and use language
to recognize objects and assemble things together
to judge distances (spatial skills)
info from http://www.themcfox.com/multiple-scleros...nitive.htm
and
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...000706.htm
What is Cognition?
Cognition refers to a whole range of different intellectual processes our brains undertake to perform tasks and keep us functional. An easy way to understand cognition is to think of it in terms of memory and thinking.
When we can think clearly and remember things well, our cognitive ability is good since we have the information immediately to hand.
If either memory, or thinking were somehow disrupted, then our ability to process information would be impaired.
Description of the how we use our cognitive skills:
to focus, maintain and divide attention (concentration)
to learn and remember new things
to think, reason and solve problems
to plan, carry out and monitor our own activities
to understand and use language
to recognize objects and assemble things together
to judge distances (spatial skills)
info from http://www.themcfox.com/multiple-scleros...nitive.htm
and
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...000706.htm