• Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term which is now discouraged) is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct...
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  • System, in a sentence reading, "In some cases there is a perfect chorea or delirium of words, which may be called paraphasia". Paraphasia is associated with...
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    1965, de Benoist wrote: "We oppose Rougier to Sartre, as we oppose verbal delirium to logics ..., because biological realism is the best support against...
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    October Fates Warning (US) Haken (UK) Hacride (France) Oddland (Finland) Verbal Delirium (Greece) Dimaeon (Netherlands) 6 October The Ocean (Germany) Wolverine...
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  • diagnosis. Another controversial term, the widely rejected idea of excited delirium, is sometimes used interchangeably with ABD (although according to definitions...
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    may also be present in Tourette syndrome; other symptoms may be found in delirium. A clinical difference exists between these two groups. Patients with psychoses...
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    deliriants), sleep deprivation, psychosis, neurological disorders, and delirium tremens. Many hallucinations happen also during sleep paralysis. The word...
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  • sometimes called secondary psychosis. Examples include: disorders causing delirium (toxic psychosis), in which consciousness is disturbed neurodevelopmental...
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  • the overall level of consciousness that is mild and less severe than a delirium. It is part of an overall model where there's regulation of the "overall...
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  • a diagnostic tool developed to allow physicians and nurses to identify delirium in the healthcare setting. It was designed to be brief (less than 5 minutes...
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  • for situational orientation. Mental confusion Mental status examination Delirium Altered mental status Berrios G E (1982) Disorientation States in Psychiatry...
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    blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, diaphoresis (sweating), and delirium. Certain lab findings are common with this presentation; however, they...
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    of schizophrenia, tics in Tourette syndrome, mania in bipolar disorder, delirium, agitation, acute psychosis, and hallucinations from alcohol withdrawal...
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  • medical scale used to help determine if a person has positive signs for delirium. The 4AT also includes cognitive test items, making it suitable also for...
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    ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response...
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  • (mesencephalic form) Akinetic mutism can be misdiagnosed as depression, delirium, or locked-in syndrome, all of which are common following a stroke. Patients...
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    symptoms of DLB are easily confused with delirium, or more rarely with psychosis; prodromal subtypes of delirium-onset DLB and psychiatric-onset DLB have...
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  • and is now sometimes also used to assess for mental confusion (including delirium) and other cognitive impairments. A 4-item version called the Abbreviated...
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  • Assessment of Cognition, bedside tests such as the 4AT (which also assesses for delirium), and computerised tests such as CoPs and Mental Attributes Profiling System...
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    system and are involved in perception, attention and cognitive functioning. Delirium is only associated with the antagonism of postsynaptic M1 receptors and...
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  • (107.6 °F) – Subject may turn red. They may become comatose, be in severe delirium, and convulsions can occur. 41 °C (105.8 °F) – (Medical emergency) – Fainting...
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    PMID 27071857. "Collins dictionary". Retrieved 17 September 2020. Elster CH (2009). Verbal Advantage: Ten Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary. Diversified Publishing...
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    observed these neurological symptoms in only one-quarter of PPP cases. Like delirium, these symptoms may come and go in unpredictable patterns. Thoughts of...
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  • Feltenstein's role and actions, especially his incorrect diagnosis of delirium tremens and the high dose of morphine he administered. Dr C. G. de Gutierrez-Mahoney...
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    others. Children's use of non-verbal communicative gestures predicts future language development. The use of non-verbal communication in the form of gestures...
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  • for implicit memory between alters but no such compartmentalization for verbal memory) and increased and persistent vigilance and startle responses to...
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    to control impulses, including either of the following: Verbal aggression (tantrums, verbal arguments, or fights) or physical aggression that occurs...
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  • there is a white Wire Fox Terrier named "Snowy Milou". In a drug-induced delirium, he describes the dreams he has had, with close parallels to the various...
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    of shorter duration is called delirium. Delirium can be easily confused with dementia due to similar symptoms. Delirium is characterized by a sudden onset...
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  • to be immediately available." "Guidelines for the Management of Excited Delirium / Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD)" (PDF). Archived from the original...
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