Organic Disorders causing Psychiatric symptoms

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Alzheimer's Disease
Delirium
Delirium Tremens
Dementia
Korsakoff's Syndrome
Lewy Body Dementia
Memory
Neuropsychiatry
Vascular Dementias

Depression

  • carcinoma
  • infections
  • neurological disorders
    • dementia
  • diabetes
  • thyroid disorder
  • Addison's disease
  • systemic lupus erythematosus

Anxiety

  • hyperthyroidism
  • hyperventilation
  • phaeochromocytoma
  • hypoglycaemia
  • neurological disorders
  • drug withdrawal

Fatigue

  • anaemia
  • sleep disorders
  • chronic infection
  • diabetes
  • hypothyroidism
  • Addison's disease
  • carcinoma
  • Cushing's syndrome
  • radiotherapy

Weakness

  • myasthernia gravis
  • McArdles disease & primary muscle disorder
  • peripheral neuropathy
  • other neurological disorders

Episodes of epilepsy

  • hypoglycaemia
  • phaeochromocytoma
  • distrubed behaviour porphyria
  • early dementia
  • toxic states
  • transient global amnesia

Headache

  • migraine
  • giant-cell arteritis
  • space-occupying lesions

Loss of weight

  • carcinoma
  • diabetes
  • tuberculosis
  • hyperthyroidism
  • malabsorption
 

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