{"id":319,"date":"2010-12-01T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:16:22","slug":"1-all-about-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"All about cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1895\" title=\"couple talking\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple_talking.jpg\" alt=\"Couple talking\" width=\"357\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple_talking.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple_talking-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Cognition<\/strong> is all about the persons thinking ability. It includes things like <strong>planning, organising, problem solving and decision making.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cognition also includes control of our <strong>emotions, social skills, and behaviour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1898\" title=\"Cognition as jigsaw pieces\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/jigsaw_pieces.gif\" alt=\"Cognition as jigsaw pieces\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a person has cognition problems after stroke it can have a significant effect on their life and that of the carer. <strong>Personality<\/strong> may change or existing personality traits become more exaggerated. The person may not have <strong>insight<\/strong> into this change which makes helping them much harder. This can be\u00a0seem worse\u00a0if the person has very little physical impairment from the stroke, almost as if their main loss of function is invisible to everyone but those closest to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognition is all about the persons thinking ability. It includes things like planning, organising, problem solving and decision making. Cognition also includes control of our emotions, social skills, and behaviour. When a person has cognition problems after stroke it can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[177,495,179,178,174,175,176],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-cognition","tag-behaviour","tag-practical-cognition","tag-insight","tag-personality","tag-planning","tag-problem-solving","tag-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}