{"id":133441,"date":"2021-11-01T06:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=133441"},"modified":"2023-06-19T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:30:12","slug":"organic-brain-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/organic-brain-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic brain disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term formerly used to describe mental illnesses due to a non-psychiatric medical condition rather than a psychological cause. It is now known that all mental illnesses have at least some biological basis. Organic brain disorder is divided into three types of mental illness. The first is delirium\u2014a state of mental confusion that develops over a few hours or days and tends to fluctuate, often rapidly. The second is dementia \u2014 a persistent state of cognitive deficit including impairment in memory. 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