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Medical condition Dementia with Lewy bodies Other names Diffuse Lewy body disease, dementia due to Lewy body disease Microscopic image of a Lewy body (arrowhead) in a neuron of the substantia nigra ; scale bar=20 microns (0.02 mm) Specialty Neurology, psychiatry Symptoms Dementia, abnormal behavior during REM sleep, fluctuations in alertness, visual hallucinations, parkinsonism Usual onset ...
Generally, dementia with Lewy bodies is distinguished from Parkinson's disease dementia by the time frame in which dementia symptoms appear relative to parkinsonian symptoms and is diagnosed when cognitive symptoms begin before or at the same time as parkinsonism. Parkinson's disease dementia is the diagnosis when Parkinson's disease is already ...
v. t. e. Organic personality disorder (OPD) or secondary personality change, is a condition described in the ICD-10 and ICD-11 respectively. It is characterized by a significant personality change featuring abnormal behavior due to an underlying traumatic brain injury or another pathophysiological medical condition affecting the brain.
Generally, diseases outlined within the ICD-10 codes F50-F59 within Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders should be included in this category. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Impulse-control disorder ( ICD) is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, an urge, or an impulse; or having the inability to not speak on a thought. Many psychiatric disorders feature impulsivity, including substance-related disorders, behavioral addictions, attention deficit ...
In medicine, a coma (from the Greek κῶμα koma, meaning deep sleep) is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than six hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.
Cognitive disorders ( CDs ), also known as neurocognitive disorders ( NCDs ), are a category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive abilities including learning, memory, perception, and problem-solving. Neurocognitive disorders include delirium, mild neurocognitive disorders, and major neurocognitive disorder (previously ...
Prolonged grief disorder. Prolonged grief disorder ( PGD ), also known as complicated grief ( CG ), [ 1] traumatic grief ( TG) [ 2] and persistent complex bereavement disorder ( PCBD) in the DSM-5, [ 3] is a mental disorder consisting of a distinct set of symptoms following the death of a family member or close friend (i.e. bereavement ).