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Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics or psychiatry of old age, is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, and mental disorders in people of old age.
290.1 Presenile dementia; 290.2 Senile dementia, depressed or paranoid type; 290.3 Senile dementia with acute confusional state; 290.4 Arteriosclerotic dementia; 290.8 Other senile and presenile organic psychotic conditions; 290.9 Unspecified senile and presenile organic psychotic conditions; 291 Alcoholic psychoses. 291.0 Delirium tremens
Examples Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence. *Disorders such as ADHD and epilepsy have also been referred to as developmental disorders and developmental disabilities. ADHD: Delirium, dementia, and amnesia and other cognitive disorders: Alzheimer's disease: Mental disorders due to a general medical condition
Delirium is a type of neurocognitive disorder that develops rapidly over a short period of time. Delirium may be described using many other terms, including: encephalopathy, altered mental status, altered level of consciousness, acute mental status change, and brain failure.
Delirium can be confused with multiple psychiatric disorders or chronic organic brain syndromes because of many overlapping signs and symptoms in common with dementia, depression, psychosis, etc. [4] [5] Delirium may occur in persons with existing mental illness, baseline intellectual disability, or dementia, entirely unrelated to any of these ...
The presentations of pseudodementia may mimic organic dementia, but are essentially reversible on treatment and doesn't lead to actual brain degeneration. However, it has been found that some of the cognitive symptoms associated with pseudodementia can persist as residual symptoms and even transform into true neurodegenerative dementia in some ...
A new study demonstrates that depression may worsen memory decline, but one condition may also exacerbate the other. Experts note the pathology of depression and memory loss overlap within the brain.
The disease has many complications, including Dementia, depression, anxiety. [29] Parkinson's disease typically occurs in people over the age of 60, of whom about one percent are affected. [30] [31] The prevalence of Parkinson's disease dementia also increases with age, and to a lesser degree, duration of the disease. [32]