Organic brain syndrome

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Brain

OBS; Organic mental disorder (OMS); Chronic organic brain syndrome

Symptoms can differ based on the disease. In general, organic brain syndromes cause:

• Agitation
• Confusion
• Long-term loss of brain function (dementia)
• Severe, short-term loss of brain function (delirium)

Tests depend on the disorder, but may include:

• Blood tests
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Head CT scan
• Head MRI

Review Date: 02/06/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Department of Anatomy at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org).

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