Organic mental disorders
Chapter 3
Organic mental disorders
2 topics
- 8Acute organic brain syndrome: delirium – types, clinical features, etiology, and treatmentAn acute, fluctuating disturbance of attention and awareness caused by a physical illness, a drug or its withdrawal, common in older people in hospital and often missed; its forms and causes, how to recognise it with the 4AT and the CAM, the search for the cause, care that puts non-drug measures first, and how much of it can be prevented.
- 9Chronic organic brain syndrome: dementias. Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. Clinical features, etiology, and treatmentAn acquired, usually progressive decline in memory and other cognitive functions that takes away independence; the main dementias and how they differ, the assessment and the causes that can be treated, the drugs that ease symptoms and the new antibodies that slow early Alzheimer's disease, and the care of behavioural symptoms without harm.