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Organic brain syndrome — Psychiatric or neurological symptoms arising from damage to or disease in the brain. Also called organic mental disorder. See also neurobiological disorder. * * * organic brain syndrome n any acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as delirium or… … Medical dictionary
organic anxiety syndrome — a term used in a former system of classification, denoting an organic mental syndrome characterized by prominent, recurrent panic attacks or generalized anxiety caused by a specific organic factor and not associated with delirium. Such disorders… … Medical dictionary
organic delusional syndrome — a term used in a former system of classification, denoting an organic mental syndrome characterized by the presence of delusions caused by a specific organic factor and not associated with delirium. Such disorders are now mainly classified as… … Medical dictionary
organic mood syndrome — a term used in a former system of classification, denoting an organic mental syndrome characterized by the presence of manic or depressive mood disturbance caused by a specific organic factor and not associated with delirium. Such disorders are… … Medical dictionary
organic personality syndrome — a term used in a former system of classification, denoting an organic mental syndrome characterized by a marked change in behavior or personality, caused by a specific organic factor and not associated with delirium or dementia. The most common… … Medical dictionary
Organic brain syndrome — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F06.9 ICD 9 310.9 … Wikipedia
organic mental disorder — a term formerly used to denote any mental disorder with a specifically known or presumed organic etiology; now discouraged because of the implication that other mental disorders do not have an organic basis. The term was also sometimes used to… … Medical dictionary
organic brain syndrome — noun mental abnormality resulting from disturbance of the structure or function of the brain • Hypernyms: ↑mental abnormality * * * noun : any acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as delirium or senile dementia) resulting chiefly from physical… … Useful english dictionary
organic brain syndrome — noun Date: 1966 an acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as Alzheimer s disease) resulting chiefly from physical changes in brain structure and characterized especially by impaired cognition … New Collegiate Dictionary
acute organic brain syndrome — delirium. 2. occasionally, a term used to denote the acute form of an organic mental syndrome … Medical dictionary
