The Nonpsychotic Organic Brain Syndrome
BENJAMIN FELDSHUH M.D.1,
JANET SILLEN 2,
BARBARA PARKER M.D.3, , and
WILLIAM FROSCH M.D.4
1 Director of the Geriatrics Evaluation and Service Unit, Bellevue/New York University Medical Center, First Ave. at 30th St., New York, N.Y. 10016
2 Coordinator of the Geriatrics Evaluation and Service Unit, Bellevue/New York University Medical Center, First Ave. at 30th St., New York, N.Y. 10016
3 Internist of the Geriatrics Evaluation and Service Unit, Bellevue/New York University Medical Center, First Ave. at 30th St., New York, N.Y. 10016
4 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, N.Y.
The New York State mental hospital system has recently limited the admission of the "simply senile," those with organic brain syndrome who are neither psychotic nor severely depressed. The authors studied 53 such people and concluded that these patients are usually severely ill and often need psychiatric hospitalization before their placement in the community.
