Not exact matches
While some psychotic
symptoms can be reasonably well treated with medication, patients
often still have debilitating problems with memory and
cognitive function, meaning they struggle to get back to work or stay in education.
The volume of gray matter is a measure of brain health, but the amount of gray matter in the brain
often begins to decrease in late adulthood, even before
symptoms of
cognitive dysfunction appear.
Symptoms vary widely but
often include
cognitive impairment, dizziness, tremors and fatigue.
The disabling illness described as either Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) results in a wide spectrum of
symptoms, the most disabling
often being a profound lack of energy, muscle pain, headache, and
cognitive issues.
Stacia Friedman - Hill, Ph.D., a program director at NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, says these findings are particularly relevant to the field of mental health research because many mental health disorders are marked by changes in
cognitive function, sometimes years before clinical
symptoms become significant, and because mental health disorders
often involve changes in the developing brain.
The emergence of a new field in oncology addressing
cognitive deficits in cancer patients is justified by the existence of deficits in memory, concentration and attention, as well as executive functions before, during and after treatments,
symptoms often referring to the «chemofog» or «cancerfog».
When depression creates
cognitive symptoms that look like Alzheimer's or another type of dementia, it's
often referred to as pseudodementia.
Abstract: Patients with Alzheimer disease (AD)
often exhibit psychiatric
symptoms associated with
cognitive impairment.
Patients with Alzheimer disease (AD)
often exhibit psychiatric
symptoms associated with
cognitive impairment.
Cognitive symptoms, including cognitive fatigue, are a common but under recognized complication of MS. Individuals with MS often report experiencing cognitive fatigue, (fatigue resulting from mental work rather than from physical labor) as one of their most debilitating
Cognitive symptoms, including
cognitive fatigue, are a common but under recognized complication of MS. Individuals with MS often report experiencing cognitive fatigue, (fatigue resulting from mental work rather than from physical labor) as one of their most debilitating
cognitive fatigue, are a common but under recognized complication of MS. Individuals with MS
often report experiencing
cognitive fatigue, (fatigue resulting from mental work rather than from physical labor) as one of their most debilitating
cognitive fatigue, (fatigue resulting from mental work rather than from physical labor) as one of their most debilitating
symptoms.
In addition, ME / CFS patients
often complain of significant
cognitive and neurological
symptoms, and a recent study suggested that neuroinflammation could be a central feature of the disease (42, 43).
Diagnosed with mild
cognitive impairment (MCI), which is
often a predecessor to Alzheimer's, she shares the realities of her
symptoms and how she manages them.
Diagnosed with mild
cognitive impairment (MCI), which is
often a predecessor to Alzheimer's, she shares the realities of her
symptoms and how she manages them.
Problems with communication, specifically non-verbal
cognitive ability, are a strong predictor of externalising behaviour problems.3 Children with ASD exhibit more severe internalising and externalising behaviours than non-ASD children, as well as a high prevalence of aggressive behaviour.3 These behavioural challenges can
often cause caregivers more distress and mental health problems than the core ASD
symptoms.4, 5 Increased child behaviour problems and parental (especially maternal) psychological distress compared with children without autism is established early in life — by the time that children are aged 5 years.6 These co-occurring, behaviour problems are of concern in early childhood because of the importance of these early years for longer term child developmental outcomes.7
These characteristics are milder in parents than in individuals diagnosed with ASD and
often include only some aspects of functioning, such as
cognitive deficits, preference to be alone, insistence on sameness, reluctance to change or obsessive - compulsive
symptoms [70,71].