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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
*This refers to states of cerebral dysfunction associated with a disturbance in any of consciousness (like catatonia), cognition, mood, affect, and behavior in the absence of drugs, infection, or a metabolic cause. These usually are due to fixed, anatomic abnormalities, though these do not always show up on brain imaging. | |||
**Thus, the "nonorganic" types are those due to drugs/substances, infection or metabolic causes, i.e. that they are (at least in principle) reversible. | |||
'''Includes''' | |||
* Schizencephaly | |||
* cerebral dysfunction post meningits or menigoencephalitis | |||
* mesial temporal sclerosis | |||
* catatonia, for non-organic causes use [[Somnolence, stupor or obtundation]] | |||
{{ICD10 Guideline Altered mental status}} | {{ICD10 Guideline Altered mental status}} | ||