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Organic Brain Syndrome
Definition 1
A mental disorder caused by intrinsic disease which is characterized by acute or chronic impairment of intellectual functioning, behavior, mood or judgment. It is attributable to a medical etiology and excludes a primary psychiatric cause. A chronic course usually correlates to a poorer prognosis. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
broad group of severe mental and behavioral disorders etiologically traceable to brain disease, injury, or toxicosis; psychosis associated with endocrine disorders, drugs, and metabolic or nutritional abnormalities. (NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
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