Your dad was likely suffering from what geriatricians call acute confusional state ( ACS ) or delirium.
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Consider additive sedative effects and confusional states to emerge, if chlorprothixene is given with benzodiazepines or barbiturates.
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The elderly, and especially those with pre-existing dementia, are most at risk for drug induced acute confusional states.
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Psychiatric casualties manifest themselves in fatigue cases, confusional states, conversion hysteria, anxiety, obsessional and compulsive states, and character disorders.
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Disorder of consciousness leading to acute confusional state and coma are one of the commonest neurological emergency in clinical practice over last century.
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Organic brain syndrome can be divided into 2 major subgroups : acute ( delirium or acute confusional state ) and chronic ( dementia ).
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"Psychiatric " : Confusional states ( especially in the elderly ) with hallucinations, disorientation, delusions, anxiety, restlessness, agitation; hypomania; exacerbation of psychosis; insomnia, panic, and nightmares.
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His work in this area culminated in Delirium : Acute Confusional States, a scholarly tour de force on an important and increasingly recognized topic, but one that had been ignored by mainstream psychiatry for many years . 10 Third, he furthered our knowledge about the problem of somatization.
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