title: Gender based variation in cognitive functions in adolescent subjects.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cognition can be defined as all mental activities that are involved in acquisition, processing, storage and retrieval of information.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are variations in the cognitive functions in male and female individuals and neuroanatomical and physiological differences contribute to these variations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
authors.forename: Sunita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mittal
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
authors.forename: Punam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
authors.forename: Nidhi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
authors.forename: Shallu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khatter
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, SGRRIM & HS, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
authors.forename: Ankita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Juyal
keywords: Cognition; Gender; MOCA; Memory; Prefrontal cortex