Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders

Delirium – Change in cognition; can be due to general medical condition, substance-induced, due to multiple etiologies (such as more than one medical condition or medical condition with substance induction), and Delirium NOS

Dementia – memory impairment and other cognitive deficits

                Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type – memory impairment and either language disturbance, inability to carry out motor activities, failure to recognize objects, inability to function executively (planning, organizing, etc). There is a gradual onset

                Also includes Vascular Dementia, Dementias due to other general medical conditions, Dementia due to HIV Disease, due to head trauma, due to Parkinson’s disease, due to Huntington’s disease, due to Pick’s Disease, due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Substance-Induced Persisting Dementia (lasts after use of substance has ceased), due to Multiple Etiologies, and NOS.

Amnestic Disorders – duet o General Medical Condition, Substance-Induced Persisting, and NOS

Other Cognitive Disorders – Cognitive Disorder NOS (doesn’t meet criteria for any of the above but impairs cognition)

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnositc and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revision, 4^th ed. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers.