1. In a condition that affects up to 14% of the population, organic disease is bound to coexist in some.

2. 26 Some of the most difficult diagnostic problems may be caused by the person who functionally elaborates an underlying organic disease.

3. Confabulation triumphs over organic disease. The hemiplegiac’s anosognosia is a stark example, but we all engage in the same basic process.

4. Clouding of consciousness may occur in organic disease that affects the oxygenation and metabolism of the brain, as well as in psychogenic disorders

5. Although alexithymia is found in patients with various somatic disorders, it remains unclear whether it is really related to organic disease – as proposed by the founders of the concept .[