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What Are Cognitive Disorders?

Cognitive disorders impact the way the brain works. They can cause someone’s brain to process information incorrectly. They can also be associated with impaired awareness and judgment, difficulty reasoning and focusing, loss of memory, and abnormal mental capacity. People with cognitive disorders have problems acquiring, mentally organizing, and responding to information, which results in an inability to function normally in everyday life situations.

How Common Are Cognitive Disorders?

Cognitive disorders are particularly common in older populations. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which affects more than seven million people in the United States. Mild cognitive impairment and non-age-related cognitive disorders are less common.

Lifestance Health specializes in Cognitive Disorders treatment with multiple locations in 33 states. Services and available treatments vary by location.

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Types of Cognitive Disorders

The term “cognitive disorders” covers a wide range of conditions that affect cognition. LifeStance providers can help with cognitive disorders such as:

  • Dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Delirium
  • Cognitive Disorders Not Otherwise Specified

References:

Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures (n.d.). Alzheimer’s Association. https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures

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Stephen Fleming, MD
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Dr. Stephen Fleming is a psychiatrist who has been practicing since 2012. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at the University of Georgia and his medical school education at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. He received training in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia while completing his residency and fellowship. Dr. Fleming seeks to utilize his clinical expertise to help those who are struggling with mental illness not only treat their illness to remission but also achieve the sense of well-being and fullness of life they desire. Since 2018 he has been a prescriber of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, a non-invasive magnetic therapy approved for the treatment of depression and OCD. In his time away from the office, Dr. Fleming enjoys spending time with his family and his dogs, exercising, reading, watching sports–in particular the Georgia Bulldogs, and traveling.