Diagnostic criteria for 310.1 Personality Change Due to...[Indicate the General Medical Condition]
(cautionary statement)
A. A persistent personality disturbance that represents a change from the individual's previous characteristic personality pattern. (In children, the disturbance involves a marked deviation from normal development or a significant change in the child's usual behavior patterns lasting at least 1 year).
B. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is the direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition.
C. The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder
(including other Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition).
D. The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a Delirium
and does not meet criteria for a Dementia.
E. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Specify type:
Labile Type: if the predominant feature is affective lability
Disinhibited Type: if the predominant feature is poor impulse control as evidenced by sexual indiscretions, etc.
Aggressive Type: if the predominant feature is aggressive behavior
Apathetic Type: if the predominant feature is marked apathy and indifference
Paranoid Type: if the predominant feature is suspiciousness or paranoid
ideation
Other Type: if the predominant feature is not one of the above, e.g., personality change associated with a seizure disorder
Combined Type: if more than one feature predominates in the clinical picture
Unspecified Type
Coding note: Include the name of the general medical condition on Axis
I, e.g., 310.1 Personality Change Due to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; also code the general medical condition on
Axis III
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition. Copyright 1994 American
Psychiatric Association
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