Writer a paper addressing how depression affects cognition. Please speak to the below bullet points in your paper and use citations.

1. Explain the definition of depression.
2. Explain the definition of cognition.
3. Long-term memory and how it's affected by depression.
4. Short-term memory and how it's affected by depression.
5. Perception and how it's affected by depression.
6. Attention/Concentration and how it's affected by depression.
7. Decision Making and how it's affected by depression.
8. Ways to combat these symptoms.

Some references that are helpful:

Sinha, N., Arora, S., Srivastava, P., & Klein, R. M. (2022). What networks of attention are affected by

depression? A meta-analysis of studies that used the attention network test. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100302

Tiago Costa, Abigail Taylor, Francesca Black, Sean Hill, R. Hamish McAllister-Williams, Peter

Gallagher, & Stuart Watson. (2023). Autonomic dysregulation, cognition and fatigue in people with depression and in active and healthy controls: observational cohort study. BJPsych Open, 9. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.68

zge Vural Kele, Erol Yldrm, (2023) Depression affects working memory performance: A

Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Volume 329

Yang, X., Ebo, T. O., Wong, K., & Wang, X. (2023). Relationships between psychological flexibility

and internet gaming disorder among adolescents: Mediation effects of depression and maladaptive cognitions. PLoS ONE, 17(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281269

Zhao, B., Jiang, X., Kong, F., & Nam, E. W. (2023). Relationship between Cognition, Depression,

and Oral health status in Older adults: A longitudinal cross-lagged analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 330, 158-164.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.02.142