Impaired abstract thinking

Description

The inability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations, such as the identifying the properties or pattern shared by a variety of specific items or events.

Index terms

Impaired abstract thinking

Exclusions from above levels

19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

MB21.0 – Age-associated cognitive decline
MB21.1 – Amnesia
MB21.2 – Anosognosia
MB21.3 – Confabulation
MB21.4 – Disorientation
MB21.5 – Distractibility
MB21.7 – Impaired executive functioning
MB21.8 – Impaired judgment
MB21.9 – Perseveration
MB21.A – Poor concentration
MB21.B – Racing thoughts
MB21.Y – Other specified symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving cognition
MB21.Z – Symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving cognition, unspecified

Foundation entity

Impaired abstract thinking – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1736683994

Part of: MB21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving cognition › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified