Mittal Sunita, Verma Punam, Jain Nidhi, Khatter Shallu, Juyal Ankita
Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
Ann Neurosci. 2012 Oct;19(4):165-8. doi: 10.5214/ans.0972.7531.190406.
Cognition can be defined as all mental activities that are involved in acquisition, processing, storage and retrieval of information.
There is paucity of the data related to cognitive function amongst healthy adolescent age group which limits our ability to distinguish and compare cognitive changes that occur across the adult lifespan in female and male subjects separately and can provide some help to understand dementia related conditions.
Cognitive function was assessed in 100 healthy subjects of each sex of 17-20 years by using 'Montreal Cognition Assessment Test', a 10 minutes: 30-points test which is used in assessing a wide range of cognitive abilities on 7 subscales : 1) Visuospatial Skills, 2) Language, 3) Memory, 4) Attention, 5) Mathematical ability, 6) Abstraction, and 7) Orientation.
Overall score (Male: 25.16 ± 1.8, Female: 25.72 ± 1.8) of cognition functions was statistically significantly higher in female adolescents (p=<0.02). However male subjects showed higher score in Mathematical ability.
There are variations in the cognitive functions in male and female individuals and neuroanatomical and physiological differences contribute to these variations.
认知可被定义为涉及信息获取、处理、存储和检索的所有心理活动。
健康青少年年龄组中与认知功能相关的数据匮乏，这限制了我们分别区分和比较成年期男女受试者认知变化的能力，且有助于理解与痴呆相关的病症。
使用“蒙特利尔认知评估测试”对100名年龄在17至20岁的健康男性和100名健康女性进行认知功能评估，该测试时长10分钟，满分30分，用于评估7个分量表上的多种认知能力：1）视觉空间技能，2）语言，3）记忆，4）注意力，5）数学能力，6）抽象能力，7）定向能力。
女性青少年的认知功能总体得分（男性：25.16±1.8，女性：25.72±1.8）在统计学上显著更高（p =<0.02）。然而，男性受试者在数学能力方面得分更高。
男性和女性个体的认知功能存在差异，神经解剖学和生理学差异导致了这些差异。
