Organic brain syndrome

✍ Scribed by Gail M. Barton

• Book ID: 104312026
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 203 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(81)80290-9

✦ Synopsis

EDITORIALS Organic Brain Syndrome

The article by Frank Purdie, MD, et al, entitled ~'Acute Organic Brain Syndrome: A Review of 100 Cases," in this issue of Annals is important, for it highlights some key issues in emergency care provision. It gives readers a chance to learn what types of causes are diagnosed by the time of discharge, what types of procedures provide the best clues, which consultants are most useful, what treatment can be done on the spot, and what the legal issues are.

Causes of OBS

Purdie and coauthors focus on the multiple diagnoses that can cause a disorder of orientation, memory, intellect, judgment, and affect resulting from impaired brain tissue --a definition echoed in Kaplan's second edition of Comprehensive Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, edition 2 (DSM II). 2 There is now a