This is important for medico-legal practice, because, in a clandestine delivery, it would be impossible to know whether or not rage was part of a wider cognitive disturbance.

If oxygen deprivation continues, cognitive disturbances and decreased motor control will result.

It's also been consistently shown that severe WMH is known to be associated with gait disorders, impaired balance and cognitive disturbances.

Albarracın et al. (2003) suggested that there are two conditions for emotional affect, both related to the ability (presence of environmental or cognitive disturbances) and the motivation:

One (or more) of the following cognitive disturbances:

Other cognitive or perceptual disturbances.

Meryl Streep portrayed, with great sensitivity, a person whose level of cognitive disturbance was far less impaired than many of my patients with the same condition.

They had incredible problems with social behavior that had normally been attributed only to cognitive disturbances.

Others may have more subtle premonitory signs, such as cognitive disturbances, unexplainable mood changes, hyperactivity or irritability.

Most cases of progressive cognitive disturbance in this age group are caused by psychiatric illness, alcohol or other drugs, or metabolic disturbance.