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Causes of Cognitive impairment
This section discusses 378 medical conditions causing Cognitive impairment. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Cognitive impairment:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Cognitive impairment.
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
- Brain conditions
- Physical diseases
- Certain vitamin deficiencies
- Certain metabolic disorders
- Liver disease
- Kidney disease
- Alcoholism
- Korsakoff's syndrome
Causes of Cognitive impairment listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Cognitive impairment as a symptom include:
- Ambenonium
- Arylsulphatase A deficiency
- Behcet's disease
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Colistimethate
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Distigmine
- Embolism
- Fahr disease
- Haemochromatosis
- Kluver-Bucy syndrome
- Legionella pneumophila
- Leptospira hebdomadis
- Levetiracetam
- Mefloquine
- Metastatic neoplasm
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Neostigmine
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
- Paraneoplastic syndrome
- Pernicious anaemia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Posterior leucoencephalopathy syndrome
- Selenium
- Smoke inhalation
- Susac's syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Tetrabenazine
- Thallium
- Toxoplasma
- Typhus fever
- Variegate porphyria
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Waldenström macroglobulinaemia
- Yersinia pestis
Conditions listing medical 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.
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Conditions listing medical complications: Cognitive impairment:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Cognitive impairment' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Cognitive impairment
- Cognitive impairment: Introduction
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List of 378 causes of Cognitive impairment
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Cognitive impairment in our database from various sources.
- 3 alpha methylglutaconicaciduria, type 3 - cognitive deficit
- 49,XXXXY syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Absence of septum pellucidum and septo-optic dysplasia - neurological problems
- Aceruloplasminemia - cognitive dysfunction
- Acidemia, propionic - intellectual disability
- Acute leukaemia of ambiguous lineage - neurological disorders
- Acute megacaryoblastic leukemia - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 1 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 2 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 3 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 4 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 5 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 6 - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 7 - neurological disorders
- Acute myelocytic leukemia - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes related to alkylating agent - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes related to topoisomerase type II inhibitor - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, therapy related - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloid leukemia - neurological disorders
- Acute myeloid leukemia, adult - neurological disorders
- Adducted thumb syndrome recessive form - neurological problems
- Adrenal adenoma, familial - mental disturbances
- Adrenal Cancer - mental disturbances
- Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms - mental disturbances
- Adrenal gland hyperfunction - mental disturbances
- Adrenal incidentaloma - mental disturbances
- Adrenocortical carcinoma - mental disturbances
- Adrenoleukodystrophy - mental deterioration
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum - impaired mental development
- Aging - Slight mental decline
- Agnosia - Inability to recognize sounds
- Alagille Syndrome - mental impairment
- Alcohol abuse - poor judgement
- Alcohol overdose
- Alcoholism
- Allergic encephalomyelitis - cognitive dysfunction
- Alopecia, mental retardation and neurological problems - neurological problems
- Alternating Hemiplegia - mental impairment
- Alzheimer's Disease - inability to function
- Ambenonium
- Amphetamine abuse - impaired thinking
- Anti-Social Personality Disorder - poor judgment
- Anton-Vogt syndrome - mental impairment
- Apert syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Aphasia - trouble understanding speech
- Arachnoid Cysts - permanent severe neurological damage
- Arachnoiditis - neurological damage
- Arrhythmias
- Arsenic poisoning - cognitive impairment chronic exposure
- Arteriovenous Malformation - neurological problems
- Arylsulphatase A deficiency
- Ataxia Telangiectasia - Normal intelligence
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - inability to organize oneself
- Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome - neurological problems
- Auditory Processing Disorder - Difficulty following instructions
- Baló disease - cognitive impairement
- Balo disease - neurological problems
- Balo's concentric sclerosis - intellectual impairment
- Barbiturate abuse - difficulty thinking
- Batten Disease - mental impairment
- Behcet's disease - neurological damage
- Benign astrocytoma - mental changes
- Benzodiazepine abuse - cognitive changes
- Bessman-Baldwin syndrome - mental deterioration
- BIDS syndrome - mental impairment
- Bing-Neel syndrome - mental deterioration
- Binswanger's Disease - loss of cognition
- Bipolar disorder - difficulty thinking
- Borderline Personality Disorder - unstable relationships
- Borna disease - mental illness
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Bosley-Salih-Alorainy syndrome - cognitive impairment
- Brachmann-De Lange Syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Brain cancer - cognitive problems
- Brain conditions
- Brain damage
- Brain diseases
- Brain neoplasms
- Brain tumor, adult - altered ability to think
- Bristowe's syndrome - mental changes
- Bulimia nervosa - inappropriate mental attitudes
- CACH syndrome - cognitive impairment
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Carotid artery stenosis
- Cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, hereditary, Dutch type - mental changes
- Cerebral malaria
- Cerebral palsy - mental impairment
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 3, Juvenile - intellectual deterioration
- Certain metabolic disorders
- Certain vitamin deficiencies
- Chiari Malformation - mental impairment
- Childhood-onset cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy - difficulty understanding speech
- Chromosome 17, trisomy 17p11.2 - cognitive impairment
- Chromosome 22q deletion - mental illness
- Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome - mental illness
- Chromosome 22q11.2 microduplication - cognitive deficits
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia - neurological disorders
- Ciguatera poisoning - persistent neurologic problems
- Cirrhosis of the liver - degraded mental function
- Cocaine abuse - difficulty thinking
- Colistimethate
- Common migraine - mental fuzziness
- Concentration difficulty
- Confusion
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Corticobasal Degeneration - cognitive impairment
- Craniosynostosis Maroteaux Fonfria type - intellectual impairment
- Craniosynostosis, sagittal, with Dandy-Walker malformation and hydrocephalus - neurological problems
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - impaired thinking
- Cryptococcosis - permanent neurologic damage
- Cushing's syndrome - mental disturbances
- Dandy Walker syndrome recessive form - intellectual impairment
- De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome - mental deterioration
- Deafness - lymphoedema - leukemia - neurological disorders
- Dehydration
- Delirium
- Delusions
- Dementia - cognitive loss
- Dementia With Lewy Bodies - cognition fluctuations
- Dementia, familial British - progressive mental deterioration
- Depression - difficulty thinking
- Depressive disorders - difficulty thinking
- Diabetic coma
- Diabetic hypoglycemia - fuzzy thinking
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- DiGeorge syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Disorganization
- Disorientation
- Distigmine
- Down syndrome - impaired judgment
- Dravet syndrome - mental decline
- Drug abuse - mental changes
- Drug-resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae Disease - Neurologic complications
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - intellectual impairment
- Dysphasic dementia, hereditary - cognitive impairment
- Dysthymia - difficulty thinking
- Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa - impaired mental development
- Eclampsia
- Electrolyte disturbances
- Embolism
- Encephalitis - mental changes
- Ependymoma - cognitive problems
- Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic crisis - cognitive problems
- Extradural hematoma
- Fahr disease
- Fetal alcohol syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Fochs-LADD - progressive mental deterioration
- Forgetfulness
- Fronto-temporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) - cognitive impairment
- Frontotemporal dementia - impaired judgment
- Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - mental disturbances
- Ganglioglioma - cognitive problems
- Gaucher disease type 2 - cognitive impairment
- Generalized lipodystrophy with mental retardation, deafness, short stature and slender bones - delayed cognitive development
- Gerstmann's Syndrome - difficulty with math
- Gliomatosis cerebri - cognitive problems
- Gliosarcoma - cognitive problems
- Glutamate decarboxylase deficiency - cognitive impairment
- Goldberg syndrome - neurological disorders
- Gulf War syndrome - cognitive dysfunction
- Haemochromatosis
- Hallucinations
- Hand-Schüller-Christian Syndrome - neurological damage
- Hangover - difficulty making decisions
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - mental slowness
- Head injury
- Heart attack
- Helminthiasis - neurological problems
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies - difficulty driving
- Heroin overdose
- HIV/AIDS - neurologic problems
- Homen syndrome - mental deterioration
- Human T-lymphotropic virus type 3 - neurological disorders
- Huntington's Disease - difficulty making a decision
- Hydranencephaly - intellectual deficits
- Hydrocephalus - cognition changes
- Hyperadrenalism - mental disturbances
- Hypereosinophilic syndrome - mental disturbances
- Hyperglycinemia - intellectual disability
- Hypernatremia - neurological damage
- Hyperostosis frontalis interna - mental impairment
- Hyperparathyroidism - impaired thinking
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypoglycemia - fuzzy thinking
- Hypoglycemic attack - fuzzy thinking
- Hypomelanosis of Ito - neurologic problems
- Hypothalamic hamartomas - cognitive problems
- Hypothermia
- Hypovolemia
- Hypoxic injury
- Hysteria
- Illegal drug overdose
- Indecision
- Internal bleeding
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Intracranial Embolism - difficulty understanding speech
- Intrauterine infections - neurological problems
- Jacobsen syndrome - cognitive dysfunction
- Jet lag - cognitive difficulty
- Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Kabuki syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Kearns-Sayre Syndrome - cognitive dysfunction
- Kidney disease
- Klinefelter syndrome, variants - poor judgment
- Kluver-Bucy syndrome - inability to recognize people
- Kohlschutter-Tonz syndrome - progressive mental deterioration
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- Krabbe leukodystrophy - mental deterioration
- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis - neurological damage
- Lead poisoning - cognitive changes
- Learning disability
- Learning disorders
- Legionella pneumophila
- Leptospira hebdomadis
- Leukemia, Myeloid - neurological disorders
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Aggressive-Phase - neurological disorders
- Leukomalacia - neurological problems
- Levetiracetam
- Lhermitte-McAlpine syndrome - mental deterioration
- Lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia, recessive - delayed cognitive development
- Liver disease
- Lupus - trouble thinking
- Lyme disease - thinking difficulties
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis - temporary neurological damage
- Mal de debarquement - cognitive dysfunction
- Malformations in neuronal migration - cognitive impairment
- Malignant astrocytoma - intellectual impairment
- Manganese toxicity - neurological disorders
- Maple syrup urine disease - neurological damage
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1A - neurological damage
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1B - neurological damage
- Maple syrup urine disease, type II - neurological damage
- Maple syrup urine disease, type III - neurological damage
- Marchiafava-Bignami disease - mental changes
- Marijuana abuse - Impaired thinking
- Mc Leod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome - cognitive impairment
- Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency - neurological damage
- Mefloquine
- Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts - cognitive impairment
- Megalencephaly - cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita - neurological problems
- Meningioma - mental changes
- Meningitis - cognitive defects
- Mental retardation
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - loss of mental abilities
- Metastatic neoplasm
- Microcephaly - mental impairment
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - mental changes
- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy - aminoacidopathy - neurological problems
- MN1 - mental changes
- Mohr-Tranebjaerg syndrome - cognitive impairment
- Morgellons Disease - cognitive dysfunction
- Morquio syndrome, type B - mental deterioration
- Moyamoya Disease - cognitive impairments
- MPS 3 C - mental deterioration
- MPS 3 D - mental deterioration
- Mucopolysaccharidosis I - progressive mental disability
- Mucopolysaccharidosis II - mental deterioration
- Mucopolysaccharidosis III - mental deterioration in childhood
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 3 - mental deterioration
- Mucopolysaccharidosis VII - Intellectual impairment
- Multi-Infarct Dementia - difficulty following instructions
- Multiple Sclerosis - cognitive impairments
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae - neurologic disorders
- Neostigmine
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome - intellectual deficits
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome Type II - intellectual deficits
- Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease - cognitive difficulties
- Neurosyphilis - general paresis - intellectual impairment
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - difficulty understanding speech
- Non-diarrheal (D-) HUS syndrome - neurological problems
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy - cognitive loss
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy I - cognitive impairment
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy, type V - progressive mental deterioration
- Organic personality syndrome - impaired judgment
- Pain attack
- Panic disorder - difficulty thinking
- Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - mental deterioration
- Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
- Paraneoplastic syndrome
- Paranoia
- Parkinson's Disease - intellectual symptoms
- Partial agenesis of corpus callosum - mental impairment
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease - mental deterioration
- Pernicious anaemia
- Peroxisomal defects - neurological problems
- Persistent Vegetative State - preserved non-cognitive function
- Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 deficiency - neurological disorders
- Physical diseases
- Pick's Disease - difficulty thinking
- Pick's disease of the brain - impaired judgment
- Pituitary cancer, childhood - mental deterioration
- Pituitary tumors, adult - mental deterioration
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Porphyria
- Posterior leucoencephalopathy syndrome
- Postpartum depression - difficulty making decisions
- Pregnancy - Dull mental function
- Prion diseases - severe mental impairment
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy - cognition failure
- Psittacosis - neurologic complications
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency, Group B - neurological problems
- Rajab-Spranger syndrome - delayed cognitive development
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type 2 - cognitive impairment
- Rasmussen's Encephalitis - mental deterioration
- Retinopathy - aplastic anemia - neurological abnormalities - neurological problems
- Rett's syndrome - physical and neurological problems
- Reye's Syndrome - progressive mental changes
- Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Sabinas brittle hair syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Sandhoff Disease - mental deterioration
- Schizophrenia - disordered thinking
- Sclerosteosis - intellectual impairment
- Selenium
- Sepsis
- Septo-Optic Dysplasia - Intellectual problems
- Shaken Baby Syndrome - neurological damage
- Shock
- Sjögren-Larsson syndrome - neurological disorders
- Smoke inhalation
- Snake bite
- Soto's Syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Spastic disorders - mental impairment
- Spastic paraplegia 11, autosomal recessive - mental impairment
- Spastic paraplegia 4, autosomal dominant - cognitive impairment
- Spider bite
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 13 - cognitive impairment
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 19 - cognitive impairment
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 - progressive mental deterioration
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 21 - cognitive impairment
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 27 - cognitive impairment
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 29 - cognitive impairment
- Spinocerebellar ataxia, X-linked, 5 - normal intelligence
- Stroke - cognitive deficits
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome - delayed cognitive skills
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis - intellectual deterioration
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Sundown syndrome - wandering
- Susac syndrome - cognitive problems
- Susac's syndrome
- Syphilis - neurological problems
- Syphilitic aseptic meningitis - cognitive changes
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Tay-Sachs disease - adult onset - intellectual impairment
- Temporal lobectomy behavior syndrome - inability to recognize people
- Tertiary syphilis
- Tetrabenazine
- Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiencies - intellectual impairment
- Thallium
- Timme syndrome - mental deterioration
- Timothy syndrome - cognitive impairment
- Toxic Shock Syndrome - mental changes
- Toxoplasma
- Transient Ischemic Attack - difficulty understanding speech
- Traumatic Brain Injury - cognitive problems
- Triple-X syndrome - mental slowness
- Turner Syndrome - cognitive defects
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus fever
- Vanishing white matter leukodystrophy - mental impairment
- Variegate porphyria
- Vasovagal attack
- Velocardiofacial syndrome - intellectual impairment
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Waldenström macroglobulinaemia
- Waterhouse- Friderichsen syndrome
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
- Westphal disease - Cognitive difficulties
- Williams Syndrome - intellectual disability
- Wilson's Disease - Various neurological and behavioral symptoms
- Xeroderma pigmentosum - mental deterioration
- Xeroderma pigmentosum, type 1 - mental deterioration
- Xeroderma pigmentosum, type 2 - mental deterioration
- Yersinia pestis
Drug interaction causes of Cognitive impairment:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Cognitive impairment.- Halcion (Triazolam) and E.E.S. interaction
- Halcion (Triazolam) and E-Mycin (erythromycin) interaction
- Halcion (Triazolam) and ERYC interaction
- Halcion (Triazolam) and EryPed interaction
- Halcion (Triazolam) and Ery-Tab interaction
Medical Textbooks about Cognitive impairment (Full Online Access)
Free online access without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Cognitive impairment. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Cognitive impairment (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter"
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