Organic mental disorders except dementia

What are organic mental disorders?

 * symptoms due to visible brain damage
 * primary organic disorders
 * symptomatic disorders: underlying physical disorder (e.g. infectious disease, systemic disease) → leading to mental disorders (i.e. mental disorders as part of their symptomatology)

Organic amnestic syndrome
= Korsakoff syndrome, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances (alcohol induced is F10.6)


 * defect of recent memory: anterograde and retrograde amnesia
 * a hallmark are confabulations (unconscious lies to fill up memory gaps)
 * evidence of an insult to or a disease of the brain

Organic personality disorder F07.0

 * usually consequence of a serious trauma to the brain
 * significant changes of behavior

Postconcussional syndrome F07.2

 * fatigue, irritability, headache, dizziness, difficulty in concentration, reduced tolerance to stress...

Other organic mental disorders

 * F06: Organic hallucinosis, organic catatonic disorder, organic delusional (schizophrenia-like) disorder, Organic mood disorder, organic anxiety disorder, organic dissociative disorder, organic emotionally labile disorder, mild cognitive disorder, NOS...
 * F05: Delirium, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances