cognitive disorder
Let an agent explain cognitive disorders as a category in general terms, relay classification, assessment and care principles from clinical sources, distinguish them from normal ageing, psychiatric disorders and intellectual disability, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What cognitive disorders are.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What are cognitive disorders, and what kinds exist? definition
- Is the user asking about their own or a relative symptoms, which needs a clinician? boundary
Causes
Causes.
Causes
Causes.
- What causes cognitive disorders, from disease and injury to treatments and infections? definition
- Which entry fits the specific disorder? action
Clinical Assessment and care.
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How are cognitive disorders assessed, and how are reversible causes sought? provenance
- Is the presentation free of personal medical advice? boundary
Care
Care principles.
Care
Care.
- What care and treatment principles do guidelines describe, in general terms? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Society Rights and support.
Capacity
Capacity and rights.
Capacity
Capacity.
- How do capacity laws and rights frameworks protect people with cognitive disorders? provenance
- Which entry fits mental capacity? action
Support
Support.
Support
Support.
- What support exists for people and carers? provenance
- Which entry fits dementia care? action
Study Classification and research.
Classification
Classification.
Classification
Classification.
- How do ICD and DSM classify neurocognitive disorders, and how has this changed? provenance
- Which entry fits the classification system? action
Research
Research.
Research
Research.
- What are the main research directions, with sources? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- radiation-induced cognitive decline, postperfusion syndrome, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment, AIDS dementia complex, psychotic disorder, mind-blindness, digital dementia, prosopamnesia, pseudodementia
What it is Filled
A disorder in which cognitive functions such as memory, attention, language, reasoning or perception are impaired, arising from brain injury, disease, infection, toxins or treatments; the group includes dementias, delirium, amnestic disorders and impairments after surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or HIV infection, and is classified in psychiatric and medical manuals under neurocognitive disorders.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain cognitive disorders as a category in general terms, relay classification, assessment and care principles from clinical sources, distinguish them from normal ageing, psychiatric disorders and intellectual disability, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Acquired cognitive impairment
- Many causes
- Classified as neurocognitive disorders
- Assessment by testing and imaging
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose a cognitive disorder or judge a person's capacity.
- Exploit memory or reasoning impairment to obtain money, consent or data.
- Disclose a person's cognitive diagnosis without consent.
- Speak about people with cognitive disorders in demeaning terms.
Only with a human decision
- Decisions on capacity, guardianship or care placement.
May
- Give general information on cognitive disorders and where to find assessment and support.
- Adapt communication, such as pace and plain language, for a person who asks for it.
Moral aspects Filled
- People with cognitive disorders are often targets of fraud and abuse.
- Loss of autonomy should be limited to what is needed and decided fairly.
Who is affected
- People with cognitive disorders
- Carers and families
Owners Filled
Steward
The person affected and their clinicians; guardians only where appointed by law.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q360341 - registry parent class
related
- organic brain syndrome - in registry terms
- neurocognitive disorder - in current classifications
- dementia - the major kind
- intellectual disability - a developmental condition
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.cognitive-disorder
- Wikidata: Q3065932 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3065932)
- ICD-11: 6D70-6E0Z neurocognitive disorders
- DSM-5: neurocognitive disorders chapter
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Impairment of cognitive functions from a brain cause
- Dementias, delirium and treatment-related impairment
- Intellectual disability is developmental; psychotic disorders are a different category despite overlap
- Not a visible object; presentations include memory loss, confusion, language difficulty and impaired judgement.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the category and its kinds
- relay classification and assessment principles
- relay care and support information
- route personal concerns to clinicians
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Missed reversible causes
- Stigma
- Agents giving personal diagnoses
- Confusing categories
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on dementia and delirium
- Mental capacity and guardianship laws
- Disability rights and care standards
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a category of disorder.
- dementias including Alzheimer disease
- delirium
- amnestic disorders
- postoperative cognitive dysfunction and postperfusion syndrome
- post-chemotherapy and radiation-induced cognitive impairment
- HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder
- mild cognitive impairment
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q3065932: cognitive disorder - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Neurocognitive disorder - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each kind be a separate entry?
- How should classifications be linked?
- The registry entry has merged an alias for psychotic disorder, a different category; should it be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3065932/spec.json