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Organic Mental Health problems have an identifiable physical cause; such as in the dementias or some people with brain injury.

Functional Mental Health Problems are not due to simple structural abnormalities of the brain. There is no 100% identifiable cause for these illnesses. The jury is still out.

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Organic Mental Disorders are caused by brain impairment and are not as common; Functional Mental Disorders are caused by a malfunction of the mind and are more common overall.

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