Classification of Dementia

Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders:
F00 Dementia in Alzheimer’s disease
F01 Vascular dementia
P02 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere
F03 Unspecified dementia
F04 Organic amnesic syndrome, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances
F05 Delirium, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances
F06 Other mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical disease
F07 Personality and behavioural disorders due to brain disease, damage and dysfunction
F09 Unspecified organic or symptomatic mental disorder

Dementia is a syndrome usually of chronic and progressive nature characterized by decline of memory and intellect.

Diagnostic criteria of dementia:
decline of learning new information
decline of other cognitive functions (thinking, judgement, planning, organizing, processing of information)
no disorder of consciousness
affective disorders (impaired emotional control - lability, irritability, apathy, decline of social functioning)
the symptoms evident for at least 6 months


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