Associated Conditions
Disorders that cause injury or damage to the brain and contribute to OBS include, but are not limited to:
- Alcoholism
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Concussion
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Hypoxia
- Intoxication/overdose caused by drug abuse including alcoholism
- Sedative hypnotic dependence and drug abuse
- Intracranial hemorrhage/trauma
- Korsakoff Syndrome
- Meningitis
- Psychoorganic syndrome
- Stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA)
- Withdrawal from drugs, especially sedative hypnotics, e.g. alcohol or benzodiazepines
Other conditions that may be related to organic brain syndrome include: clinical depression, neuroses, and psychoses, which may occur simultaneously with the OBS.
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