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Best Answer: The DSM IV does not list 'cognitive stress' as a specific disorder, but disorders like Delirium, Dementia, etc. are listed under cognitive disorders. Cognitive stress would really just mean a strain in cognitive function, or in processing certain information/ messages sent to the brain.
Stress causes the release of a hormone called cortisol. Giving rats daily injections of corticosterone (rat cortisol) for several weeks kills certain brain cells. Stressing the rats each day for the same amount of time has an identical effect. Cortisol has been shown to damage and kill cells in the hippocampus (the brain area responsible for your episodic memory) and there is robust evidence that chronic stress causes premature brain aging.