An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
1981; see DEMENTIA, SENILE 1979-91; see PSYCHOSES, SENILE 1963-78; see PSYCHOSES, PRESENILE 1963-72; see PICK DISEASE OF BRAIN 1981-91; see PICK'S DISEASE OF BRAIN 1966-80; for DEMENTIA, PRESENILE see DEMENTIA 1967-97; for DEMENTIA, SENILE see DEMENTIA 1966-97
An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
