What is "cognitive dysfunction"?

What is "cognitive dysfunction"?

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Cognition refers to those mental functions that are important for processing information that give us the ability to make decisions, make inferences and other kinds of judgments. Cognitive dysfunction is where you have a deficit in one of those areas. Some of those areas include attention, memory, executive function and even the ability to interpret social situations -- for example, recognize what a person's facial expression means.