Talk:Organic mental disorder

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'differs from dementia'
Before I edited it the article began:

"An organic mental disorder (OMD), also known as organic brain syndrome or chronic organic brain syndrome, is a form of decreased mental function due to a medical or physical disease, rather than a psychiatric illness. This differs from dementia.[1]" The reference [1] was to https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001401.htm.

I find it confusing to suggest simply that OMD 'differs from dementia'. This makes it sound like it is a different diagnosis or different type of condition, and ignores the ways in which dementias are themselves causes of various OMDs. The difference, we might say, is one of logical, not of diagnostic, category. As the reference [1] itself makes clear, neurocognitive disorders (I assume, along with whoever put the reference in, that this category is sufficiently synonymous with OMDs) can be caused by dementias but can also be caused by other conditions.

For such reasons I changed the first two lines to the single line:

"An organic mental disorder (OMD), also known as organic brain syndrome or chronic organic brain syndrome, is any disorder which involves decreased mental function due to a medical or physical disease of the brain, rather than to psychiatric illness." 2.29.238.127 (talk) 13:33, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Organic brain syndrome into Organic mental disorder
These articles claim to be about the same thing, and give each other's names as synonyms. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:08, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support agree with nom. --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:10, 4 January 2020 (UTC)