Examples Of Cognitive Impairmentia

The cognitive neurology and dementia service provides a consultant-led multi-disciplinary approach to the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of all cognitive disorders. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Impairment of cognitive function is the central feature of dementia. Although, clinically, the cognitive deficit most often manifests itself as memory problems, a number of other areas of cognition are affected, and memory is but one of the cognitive skills compromised in dementia. Dementia with Lewy bodies, for example, accounts for 15% to 25% of all dementias and does not have memory deficits as a core feature. Cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease is also major challenge since it has been established