DSM 5 Rev. changing term "dementia" to " common cold"

The Fifth Edition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will soon be changing the diagnosis of Dementia (290 - 290.4) to Common Cold, which is designated by the ICD-10 as J00 and medically known as acute nasopharyngitis. 

Originally the term dementia was categorized as a Neurocognitive Disorder (NCD) but due to our present state of political correctness, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has simply changed the nomenclature, not the actual diagnosis.

Now the DSM-5 [apart from the ICD-10] defines the  "common cold [J00]" as a major neurocognitive disorder, as a significant decline in one or more cognitive domains that interferes with a person's ability to perform everyday activities. The cognitive domains that may be affected include: 

1) complex attention.

2) executive function [no pun intended]

3. learning and memory

4) language

5) perceptual-motor function

6) social cognition

So when U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. falls asleep after 4 p.m., or when he undergoes a week of intensive debate preparation but forgets the debate preparation, or when his language sounds muddled and totally confused or becomes a word salad, or when he has frequent falls up stairs, off bikes, or when he shakes hands and nobody is there, do not call it dementia or neurocognitive disorder. 

Call it the common cold.

After all, that's what his staff calls it--at least in public.

But at least he got over it the next day when he was at the Waffle House.

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