When these disorders are found outside the context of mental illness, they are often caused by organic dysfunction as a result of traumatic brain injury, stroke, or neurological illness.

People who suffer from these delusions as a result of organic dysfunction often do not suffer from any obvious intellectual deficiency nor do they have any other symptoms.

There is no organic dysfunction, only nonviability.

The disorder is often found within the context of dementia and can also be caused by the organic dysfunction resulting from traumatic brain injury, stroke, or neurological illness.

Second, it's not possible to make shock harmless, because the treatment works by producing sufficient organic dysfunction to blunt the patient's emotional capacity to feel depression.

Persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.

In the case of reading disability from organic dysfunction, competent authority is defined as doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who may consult with colleagues in associated disciplines.

The works of Giovanni Battista Morgagni laid the foundations for modern anatomical pathology and first described the concept of disequilibrium linked to internal organic dysfunctions.

These may be the result of childhood trauma, mental illness, and/or organic dysfunctions.

Hippocrates, in the fifth century B.C., declared that mental illness was a medical problem based on an organic dysfunction of the brain, which could best be addressed with oral remedies.