Organic personality disorder
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| F07 | Personality and behavioral disorder due to an illness, damage, or dysfunction of the brain |
| F07.0 | Organic personality disorder |
| F07.2 | Organic psychosyndrome after head trauma |
| F07.8 | Other organic personality and behavioral disorders due to an illness, damage or dysfunction of the brain |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
An organic personality disorder is a permanent change in behavior, thinking and feeling, which is causally organic. This can be caused by an illness, injury, metabolic disorder or poisoning that directly or indirectly affects the brain. Possible causes are advanced " dementia ", " traumatic brain injury ", brain tumor and " chronic alcohol abuse ".
Changes in personality can u. a. be: expressing needs and impulses without considering consequences or social conventions, affective changes such as emotional instability and irritability, noticeable changes in language and flow of speech, cognitive disorders in the form of suspicion or paranoid thinking and inadequate joke addiction.
Web links
- ICD10 of the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information
- AOK information on organic personality disorder
