Organic brain disorder, NOS: Difference between revisions
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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
*This refers to states of cerebral dysfunction associated with a disturbance in any of consciousness, 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. | *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. | **Thus, the "nonorganic" types are those due to drugs/substances, infection or metabolic causes, i.e. that they are (at least in principle) reversible. | ||