USMLE (Fach) / Psychiatry (Lektion)

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↓ in intellectual function without affecting level of consciousness

- memory deficits- apraxia- aphasia- agnosia- loss of abstract thought- behavioral/personality changes

- increased risk for dilirium

Irreversible causes: Alzheimer disease, Lewy body dementia, Huntington disease, Pick disease, cerebral infarct, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, chronic substance abuseReversible causes: hypothyroidism, depression, vitamin B12 deficiency, hydrocephalus, neurosyphilis

- EEG usually normal

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