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Symptom: Cognitive impairment

Cognitive impairment: General loss of mental or cognitive ability
Introduction: Mental cognition refers to the various mental processes that underpin our rational thinking.

Detailed cause information for symptom: Cognitive impairment:

Possible causes of symptom: Cognitive impairment (37 conditions)

Medical conditions causing symptom: Cognitive impairment (95 conditions)

Medical conditions causing complication: Cognitive impairment (21 conditions)

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Types of Cognitive impairment: disorganization (7)
Cognitive impairment type of: Mental problems (105)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions

Possible causes of symptom: Cognitive impairment: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Cognitive impairment as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

Other symptoms or medical conditions that may need to be considered for a more precise consideration of cognitive symptoms include:
Mental retardation
Down syndrome
Learning disorders (type of Mental illness)
Brain conditions
- Cerebral palsy
- Stroke
- Brain damage
- Head injury
- Brain diseases
- Tertiary syphilis (type of Syphilis)
Physical diseases
- Certain vitamin deficiencies
- Certain metabolic disorders
- Liver disease
- Kidney disease
- Alcoholism
- Korsakoff's syndrome

Conditions listing symptoms: Cognitive impairment: The following list of conditions have 'Cognitive impairment' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

Achondroplasia ... normal intelligence

Agenesis of the corpus callosum ... impaired mental development

Aging ... Slight mental decline

Agnosia ... Inability to recognize sounds, Inability to recognize people, Inability to recognize objects

Alcohol abuse ... poor judgement

Alternating Hemiplegia ... mental impairment

Alzheimer's Disease ... thinking difficulty, impaired visual skills, inability to function, cognition disintegration, wandering, poor judgment

Amphetamines ... poor judgement

Aphasia ... trouble understanding speech

Arteriovenous Malformation ... neurological problems

Ataxia Telangiectasia ... Normal intelligence

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ... inability to organize oneself, inability to organize school work, difficulty managing time, difficulty with details, disorganization

Auditory Processing Disorder ... Difficulty following instructions, Normal intelligence

B

Barbiturate abuse ... trouble thinking

Binswanger's Disease ... loss of cognition

Bipolar disorder ... difficulty thinking

Borderline Personality Disorder ... unstable relationships, difficulty with relationships

Brain cancer ... cognitive problems

Bulimia nervosa ... inappropriate mental attitudes

C

Cerebral Palsy ... mental impairment, Normal intelligence

Chiari Malformation ... mental impairment

Cirrhosis of the liver ... degraded mental function

Cocaine ... difficulty thinking

Common migraine ... mental fuzziness

Corticobasal Degeneration ... cognitive impairment

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ... impaired thinking, impaired judgment

Cushing's syndrome ... mental disturbances

D

Dementia ... cognitive loss, mental decline

Dementia With Lewy Bodies ... cognition fluctuations, cognition loss

Depression ... difficulty thinking, relationship difficulty, mental changes, difficulty making decisions

Depressive disorders ... difficulty thinking, relationship difficulty, mental changes, difficulty making decisions

Diabetic hypoglycemia ... fuzzy thinking

Drug abuse ... mental changes

Dwarfism ... normal intelligence

Dyslexia ... normal intelligence

Dysthymia ... difficulty thinking, relationship difficulty, mental changes, difficulty making decisions

E

Encephalitis ... mental changes, impaired judgement

Encephaloceles ... normal intelligence

F

Fetal alcohol syndrome ... intellectual impairment, problem solving difficulty

G

Gerstmann's Syndrome ... difficulty with math, calculation dysfunction (dyscalculia), inability to distinguish right from left, inability to calculate (acalculia)

Gulf War syndrome ... cognitive dysfunction

H

Hangover ... difficulty making decisions

Hashimoto's Thyroiditis ... mental slowness

HIV/AIDS ... neurologic problems

Huntington's Disease ... difficulty making a decision, cognitive difficulty, progressive mental deterioration, difficulty driving, difficulty learning new things, impaired judgement

Hydranencephaly ... intellectual deficits

Hydrocephalus ... cognition changes

Hyperparathyroidism ... impaired thinking

Hypoglycemia ... fuzzy thinking

Hypoglycemic attack ... fuzzy thinking

J

Jet lag ... cognitive difficulty, difficulty making decisions

K

Kearns-Sayre Syndrome ... cognitive dysfunction

Klinefelter syndrome ... normal intelligence

L

Lupus ... trouble thinking, neurological disorders

Lyme disease ... thinking difficulties

M

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy ... loss of mental abilities, mental deterioration, mental deterioration, mental deterioration, mental deterioration

Moyamoya Disease ... cognitive impairments

Mucopolysaccharidosis I ... progressive mental disability

Mucopolysaccharidosis II ... mental deterioration

Mucopolysaccharidosis III ... mental deterioration in childhood

Mucopolysaccharidosis IV ... normal intelligence

Mucopolysaccharidosis VII ... Intellectual impairment

Multi-Infarct Dementia ... difficulty following instructions, getting lost, wandering, problems handling money

Multiple Sclerosis ... cognitive impairments, judgment difficulties

Mycoplasma pneumoniae ... neurologic disorders

N

Niemann-Pick disease ... inability to look up and down

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss ... difficulty understanding speech

O

Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy ... cognitive loss

P

Panic disorder ... difficulty thinking

Parkinson's Disease ... intellectual symptoms

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease ... mental deterioration

Persistent Vegetative State ... preserved non-cognitive function, lost cognitive function

Pick's Disease ... difficulty thinking, lack of spontaneity

Postpartum depression ... difficulty making decisions

Prion diseases ... severe mental impairment

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy ... cognition failure, mental deterioration

R

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type 2 ... cognitive impairment

Rasmussen's Encephalitis ... mental deterioration

Rett's syndrome ... physical and neurological problems

Reye's Syndrome ... progressive mental changes

S

Sandhoff Disease ... progressive mental deterioration

Schizencephaly ... normal intelligence

Schizophrenia ... disordered thinking, Cognitive symptoms

Septo-Optic Dysplasia ... Intellectual problems, normal intelligence

Soto's Syndrome ... delayed cognitive development

Spastic disorders ... mental impairment, Normal intelligence

Stroke ... trouble understanding speech

Sturge-Weber Syndrome ... delayed cognitive skills

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis ... intellectual deterioration

Syphilis ... mental illness, neurologic problems

T

Toxic Shock Syndrome ... mental changes

Transient Ischemic Attack ... difficulty understanding speech

Traumatic Brain Injury ... cognitive problems

W

Williams Syndrome ... intellectual disability

Wilson's Disease ... Various neurological and behavioral symptoms

Conditions listing complications: Cognitive impairment: The following list of conditions have 'Cognitive impairment' or similar listed as a complication in our database. The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

Alzheimer's Disease ... inability to function, cognition disintegration, wandering

Amphetamines ... impaired thinking

Arachnoid Cysts ... permanent severe neurological damage

Arachnoiditis ... neurological damage

B

Barbiturate abuse ... difficulty thinking

Batten Disease ... mental impairment

C

Ciguatera poisoning ... persistent neurologic problems

Cirrhosis of the liver ... degraded mental function

Cryptococcosis ... permanent neurologic damage

D

Down Syndrome ... impaired judgment

Drug-resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae Disease ... Neurologic complications

L

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis ... temporary neurological damage

M

Marijuana ... Impaired thinking

Meningitis ... cognitive defects

Microcephaly ... mental impairment

P

Pregnancy ... Dull mental function

Prion diseases ... severe mental impairment

Psittacosis ... neurologic complications

S

Stroke ... Impaired judgment

Syphilis ... neurological problems

T

Triple-X syndrome ... mental slowness

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