Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition
Personality Change Due to a General Medical Condition
A change was made to correct an error in the exclusion criterion, which did not allow a diagnosis of Personality Change Due to a General Medical Condition (GMC) to be given comorbidly with a diagnosis of dementia. This criterion was an unintended carryover from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R), which excluded personality change in the presence of dementia because personality change was included in the diagnostic criteria for dementia. Clinically significant symptoms occurring along with dementia are diagnosed by coding the specific mental disorder due to a GMC on Axis I alongside the dementia. Thus, this exclusion was removed, allowing, for example, an individual with Alzheimer's disease who develops a change in personality to be given a comorbid diagnosis of Personality Change Due to Alzheimer's Disease.