Question

a) what is cognition and how does it affect the body's health?

b) What are common alterations related to cognition?

c) what is happening in the cells, tissues and the body in relation to cognition? and apply the concept of cognition to a specific disease.

Answer 1

Ans) Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses."

Learning is an example of cognition.

Cognitive factors in health psychology and behavioral medicine. ... Prevention and control efforts across a variety of diseases have recognized that individual difference factors, belief systems, attitudes, behaviors, and environments can affect an individual's health.

b) It usually refers to a durable characteristic, as opposed to altered level of consciousness, which may be acute and reversible.

- Cognitive deficits may be inborn or caused by environmental factors such as brain injuries, neurological disorders, or mental illness.

c) By definition, normal age-related cognitive change does not impair a person's ability to perform daily activities. ... However, studies show that normal cognitive aging can result in subtle declines in complex functional abilities, such as the ability to drive.

Whether cognitive changes will improve or be permanent depends on their cause.

• Acute cognitive changes (delirium) that occur because of certain medicines often improve when you stop taking the medicine.
• Chronic changes (dementia) are often not reversible, but may be improved if the cause of the problems can be corrected.