Mental disorders due to brain damage

Dementia is a syndrome, often associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, and characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. Aside from memory impairment and a disruption in thought patterns, the most common symptoms of dementia include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation. The symptoms may be described as occurring in a continuum over several stages. Dementia is an incurable, prog

group of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy

dementia that involves impairments in cognitive function caused by problems in blood vessels that feed the brain

organic brain syndrome that occurs following head trauma (i.e. concussion)

syndrome or disorder of mental function whose cause is alleged to be known as organic (physiologic) rather than purely of the mind

disorder

mental disorder

disorder characterised by impairment of memory, thought disorders etc., due to diffuse psychoorganic brain damage