Saturday, December 13, 2008

Criteria of DSM-IV

The criteria of DSM-IV based on:

The installation of intellectual wearing a partial or complete:

* Memory: amnesia of recent and old
* Disorder of executive functions (ie organization and realization of a complex task, such as sheet fulfill its tax return)
* Language disorders (aphasia amnesiac) characterized by "omission of the word"
* Disorders of praxis: apraxia (ie realization of gestures complex: for example, use the washing machine)
* A Agnosia (disorders of recognition): eg road signs, faces and so on.

These disorders have an impact socio-professional.

Their evolution is a gradual and irreversible (decline ...).

These signs can not be explained by other factors, or organic (tumor, infectious, toxic) or psychological (depression, schizophrenia) and outside of acute confusion.

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