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Dementia

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Diagnostic Criteria


Impairment in short- and long-term memory

At least 1 of the following:

Impairment in abstract thinking

Impaired judgment

Other disturbances of higher cortical function

Personality change

Memory impairment and intellectual impairment caused significant social and occupational
impairments

Absence of occurrence exclusively during the course of Delirium

Either of the following:

Evidence of an organic factor causing this impaired memory and intellect

Impaired memory and intellect cannot be accounted for by any nonorganic mental disorder

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