Unspecified dementia

Inclusion terms

Includes

• disorders of psychological development
• Note: This block comprises a range of mental disorders grouped together on the basis of their having in common a demonstrable etiology in cerebral disease, brain injury, or other insult leading to cerebral dysfunction. The dysfunction may be primary, as in diseases, injuries, and insults that affect the brain directly and selectively; or secondary, as in systemic diseases and disorders that attack the brain only as one of the multiple organs or systems of the body that are involved.

Applicable to

• Major neurocognitive disorder NOS
• Presenile dementia NOS
• Presenile psychosis NOS
• Primary degenerative dementia NOS
• Senile dementia NOS
• Senile dementia depressed or paranoid type
• Senile psychosis NOS

Also known as

• Major neurocognitive disorder NOS
• Presenile dementia NOS
• Presenile psychosis NOS
• Primary degenerative dementia NOS
• Senile dementia NOS
• Senile dementia depressed or paranoid type
• Senile psychosis NOS
• Dementia, in multiple, etiologies
• Dementia, in unknown etiology
• Dementia, old age
• Dementia, presenile
• Dementia, primary degenerative
• Dementia, senile
• Dementia, senile, depressed or paranoid type
• Depression, senile
• Disorder, major neurocognitive
• Disorder, mental, presenile, psychotic
• Disorder, mental, senile, psychotic NEC
• Disorder, neurocognitive, major
• Insanity, insane, senile
• Melancholia, senile
• Old age, dementia

Browse

• Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99)
• F01-F09: Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions