Organic Mental Disorders

Question 1

what are organic mental disorders?

Answer 1

characterised by demonstrable organic brain damage or mental disorder arising in the context of demonstrable physical disease

Question 2

damage to what causes amnesic syndrome?

Answer 2

> hippocampal damage

> diencephalic damage

Question 3

what can cause hippocampal damage?

Answer 3

> closed head injury
> anoxia
> herpes simplex virus
> surgical removal of the temporal lobes
> bilateral cerebral artery occlusion
> early Alzheimer's disease

Question 4

what can cause diencephalic damage?

Answer 4

> korsakoffs syndrome
3rd ventricle tumours and cysts
bilateral thalamic infarction
post subarachnoid haemorrhage (anterior communicating artery aneurysm)

Question 5

what is the presentation amnesic syndrome?

Answer 5

> preserved global intellectual abilities
> anterograde amnesia
> retrograde amnesia (temporal gradient)
> preserved registration
> preserved procedural memory