A present-day clinician uses terms like "dementia" and "mental retardation" for diagnostic categories. That clinician is using terms:

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"Dementia" and "mental retardation" were diagnostic categories in previous versions of the DSM, but have been replaced with more specific terms such as "major neurocognitive disorder" and "intellectual disability" in the DSM-5. Therefore, a present-day clinician using these terms is using terminology from previous versions of the DSM.

A Present-Day Clinician Uses Terms Like "Dementia" and "Mental Retardation