mental function
How minds work
Mental function refers to the cognitive processes and capabilities of the mind—thinking, reasoning, remembering, perceiving, and problem-solving.
The term appears most often in medical and psychological contexts when assessing brain health: The stroke affected her mental function, His mental function remains sharp at ninety.
Mental functions can be impaired by illness, injury, or substances, and may decline or improve over time.
- impulse controlRegulating sudden urges
- empathySharing another's emotions
- mood regulationControlling emotional states
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- attentionFocused mental awareness
cognitive load · reasoning · decision-making · self-awareness · problem-solving · abstraction · perception · habit formation · social interaction · learning · brain fog · stress response · fight or flight · neuroplasticity · adaptability · emotional intelligence · gut feeling · language processing
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
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Involuntary stimulus response
automatic response · knee-jerk reaction · conditioned reflex · gut reaction · fight-or-flight response
mental functioncognitive impairment
Diminished intellectual function
mental impairment · mental incapacity · cognitive deficit · cognitive decline · mental deterioration
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