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Dementia

1. Impairment in short and long-term memory

2. 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 cause significant social and occupational impairments and represent a significant decline from a previous level of functioning

3. Absence of occurrence exclusively during the course of Delirium.

4. 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

In the case of Dementia-Alcoholism type, point 4 would be replaced by:

• Memory loss followed prolonged, heavy ingestion of alcohol
• Exclusion of all causes of memory loss other than alcoholism

In the case of Dementia-Alzheimer's type, point 4 would be replaced by:

• Insidious, gradual onset with a generally progressive deteriorating course
• Exclusion of all other specific causes of Dementia (except Alzheimer's)

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