[Disorientation in patients with organic brain disorders]

The aim of the study was to designate conditions in which disorientation appears in patients with organic brain disorders. This was made through analysis of relations between the disorientation and 10 variables describing the disorders. 110 patients with various organic brain disorders was examined. In order to estimate the results of this investigation the method of cluster analysis (Wrocław taksonomy) was used. Disorientation appeared to be in one cluster with the disorder of gestalting function in the Bender test, diagnosis, psychomotoric slowing, aphasia, type and localization of lesion and age of the patients. These features may be the conditions in which disorientation appears in the patients with organic brain disorders.