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Originally Posted by tevelygo
Thanks. Why does depression cause the cognitive effects?
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Impacts on cognition are often bound up with depressive illness and these days are seen as one of the symptoms of moderate to severe depression rather than something secondary.
Cognitive deficits in depression | The British Journal of Psychiatry
But beware of simplistic causal interpretations of this, it's not so much that 'one causes the other' but more that they are part of the same thing.