Cognitive Domains
This cognitive domain involves the ability to plan, make decisions, and focus on tasks.
What is executive function?
This acute disorder is characterized by a disturbance in attention and awareness, developing over a short period.
What is delirium?
This level of neurocognitive disorder requires a significant cognitive decline that interferes with independence in everyday activities.
What is major neurocognitive disorder?
This criterion for neurocognitive disorders requires evidence of significant cognitive decline from a previous level of performance.
What is Criterion A?
This term, often used interchangeably with 'major neurocognitive disorder,' has been traditionally used to describe cognitive decline in older adults.
What is dementia?
The ability to maintain attention over time, selectively attend to stimuli, and process information speedily falls under this cognitive domain.
What is complex attention?
Specify this type of delirium that occurs due to the physiological consequences of substance intoxication or withdrawal.
What is substance intoxication or withdrawal delirium?
This milder level of neurocognitive disorder involves a modest cognitive decline that does not interfere with everyday independence
What is mild neurocognitive disorder?
For neurocognitive disorders, this specifies whether the disorder is due to Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body disease, or another etiology.
What is specifying etiology?
These disorders are characterized by primary clinical deficits in cognitive function that are acquired rather than developmental.
What are neurocognitive disorders?
This domain involves skills related to learning and memory, including immediate and recent memory.
What is learning and memory?
This specifier for delirium describes an individual with a hypoactive level of psychomotor activity.
What is hypoactive delirium?
Evidence of cognitive decline in this domain is necessary for diagnosing neurocognitive disorders and can involve tasks like managing money or medications.
What are complex instrumental activities of daily living?
This level of severity in neurocognitive disorders is indicated by difficulties with basic activities of daily living.
What is moderate?
This neurocognitive disorder subtype can be due to Alzheimer's disease, vascular disease, or substance/medication use, among others.
What are etiological subtypes of neurocognitive disorders?
Language expression and comprehension, including naming, fluency, and grammar, are aspects of this cognitive domain.
What is language?
Delirium due to this is diagnosed when symptoms arise as a side effect of a medication taken as prescribed.
What is medication-induced delirium?
This specifier is used for neurocognitive disorders to indicate the presence of symptoms like agitation or apathy.
What is with behavioral disturbance?
This requirement for diagnosing neurocognitive disorders involves the cognitive deficits not being better explained by another mental disorder.
What is Criterion D?
Neurocognitive disorders are unique in DSM-5 for being syndromes for which this aspect can potentially be determined.
What is the underlying pathology?
This cognitive domain includes the ability to recognize faces, understand social cues, and theory of mind.
What is social cognition?
This type of delirium is characterized by rapid switches between hyperactive and hypoactive states.
What is mixed level of activity delirium?
This term describes the severity level of a neurocognitive disorder where the individual is fully dependent.
What is severe?
In diagnosing neurocognitive disorders, this involves the cognitive deficits interfering with independence in everyday activities.
What is Criterion B?
The major and mild categorizations of NCDs replace this term, which is not precluded from use in etiological subtypes where it is standard.
What is dementia?