organic brain syndrome

The majority of the patients prior to 1960 were admitted for symptoms of organic brain syndrome.

A more specific medical term for the acute subset of organic brain syndromes is delirium.

This index distinguishes five different levels of organic brain syndrome ranging from severe to subclinical.

Chronic organic brain syndrome is long-term.

Duration of symptoms must normally exceed 6 months for a diagnosis of dementia or organic brain syndrome to be made.

Improvement has also been seen in patients with exogenic post-concussion syndrome, organic brain syndromes and other dementias.

Psychosis, confusion, and organic brain syndrome may be caused by alcohol misuse, which can lead to a misdiagnosis such as schizophrenia.

Reliability appears to be only satisfactory for three categories: mental deficiency, organic brain syndrome (but not its subtypes), and alcoholism.

Psychotic organic brain syndrome (rarely).

(2) Psychiatric : anxiety, depression, confusion, sleep deprivation, organic brain syndrome, or psychosis.

'What you have described to me, Homer, sounds like some kind of evolving organic brain syndrome,' Dr. Larch wrote.

The woman had been in the longterm-care area of the 1,045-bed hospital with organic brain syndrome, cirrhosis, anemia and other ailments, according to Ms. Schnall.

Organic brain syndrome can be divided into 2 major subgroups: acute (delirium or acute confusional state) and chronic (dementia).

For example, some forms of chronic drug or alcohol dependence can cause organic brain syndrome due to their long-lasting or permanent toxic effects on brain function.

The latter scale is also, according to its author, clinically useful in differentiating NDEs from organic brain syndromes and nonspecific stress responses.

Other conditions that may be related to organic brain syndrome include: clinical depression, neuroses, and psychoses, which may occur simultaneously with the OBS.

Mental impairments include mental or psychological disorders, such as mental retardation, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities.

Delirium is distinguished from dementia (chronic organic brain syndrome) which describes an "acquired" (non-congenital) and usually irreversible cognitive and psychosocial decline in function.

He bore the classic, clinical features of Alzheimer's disease, and Wilbur Larch would have spotted it for what it was-a progressive organic brain syndrome.

The disorders formerly encompassed by the term covered a wide range of mental disorders now diagnosed as organic brain syndromes, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychotic disorders.

A third entity, encephalopathy (subacute organic brain syndrome), denotes a gray zone between delirium and dementia; its early course may fluctuate, but it is often persistent and progressive.

Neurological involvements range from aseptic meningitis to vascular thrombosis such as dural sinus thrombosis and organic brain syndrome manifesting with confusion, seizures, and memory loss.

Acute organic brain syndrome is (by definition) a recently appearing state of mental impairment, as a result of intoxication, drug overdose, infection, pain, and many other physical problems affecting mental status.

As is the case with most acute disease problems, acute organic brain syndrome is often temporary-however this is not guaranteed (a recent-onset problem may continue to be chronic or long term).

Also, after 1952, mental illnesses like schizophrenia were removed from the category of organic brain syndromes, and thus (by definition) removed from possible causes of "dementing illnesses" (dementias).