(n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
(n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(2) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(3) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
(4) The delirium improved when the treatment was restored, whereas neuroleptics proved ineffective.
(5) At site 1, 10 patients with and 20 without delirium participated; at site 2, 16 patients with and 10 without delirium participated.
(6) The activation of epileptogenic activity in the treatment of delirium tremens by etomidate long-term-infusions and the lack of international experience in this field do not support the use of etomidate as an anticonvulsive agent.
(7) In particular after removal of Lorazepam or Bromazepam in 58 cases withdrawal symptoms appeared, among them seven times delirium and six times epileptic seizures (grand mal).
(8) Common alcohol-related complications requiring treatment include: (1) clinicopathologic disorders, often associated with the gastroenterologic or cardiorespiratory systems, including alcoholic cirrhosis, (2) peripheral myoneural effects, (3) neuropsychiatric complications (delirium tremens, acute alcoholic hallucinosis, Korsakoff's psychosis, alcoholic dementia), and (4) psychosocial disability.
(9) Delirium is fostered by sensory overload (or deprivation) in the recovery room and intensive care unit, and by staff tension.
(10) Cameron has suggested that nocturnal delirium was based on an inability to maintain a spatial image without the assistance of repeated visualization.
(11) The delirium was not affected by administration of alprazolam.
(12) Reported is a case of postanesthetic delirium in a healthy young man.
(13) The results of uncontrolled studies, in which the period of the delirium tremens was reduced and the intensity was lowered significantly by aprotininum, could not be verified in our double-blind study.
(14) Research workers have analysed 92 cases of acute delirium in their country and have tried to bring out of their studies the particular aspects which are sources of many diagnostical errors: --factors which cause anxiety and lead to depressive states in Europe, but which destroy quickly the consciousness of some personalities still to be defined in Madagascar; --poor delirium in the tropics with little or no reaction at all makes the diagnostic very difficult.
(15) Interestingly, the overall incidence of delirium was identical in both groups (28.5%).
(16) Nonetheless, these factors or conditions may contribute to the development or symptom presentation of a delirium when other metabolic or toxic etiologies are present.
(17) The administration of homatropine eye-drops precipitated several episodes of delirium in a 69-year-old woman.
(18) During the past ten years, treatment of delirium alcoholicum was almost exclusively by means of chlormethiazol (distraneurin), an agent which has sedative, hypnotic, and antiepileptic effects.
(19) Finally we suggest that investigation of biochemical abnormalities in delirium may prove to be a model for clarifying the role of neurotransmitters in functional psychiatric illnesses.
(20) These long-term changes in neuronal excitability might relate to the progression of alcohol withdrawal symptoms from tremor to seizures and delirium tremens, as well as the alcoholic personality changes between episodes of withdrawal.
Delusional
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
Example Sentences:
(1) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
(2) The relationship of response to neuroleptic dose and desipramine plasma concentration was examined in 31 patients with unipolar delusional depression.
(3) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
(4) The results suggest that Cues, Pause, Point procedures may offer some potential for replacing delusional responding with appropriate responding to social stimuli.
(5) Techniques for assessing the existence of significant hallucinatory and delusional experiences in children are suggested.
(6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
(7) Schizophrenics had decreased sleep continuity comparable to delusional depressives.
(8) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
(9) The irrational motivations of refusal (particularly, denial and delusional ideation) have been evoked much more often then rational motivations (therapeutic inefficiency, secondary effects).
(10) The top Trump aide called Fields “totally delusional”, and the candidate suggested: “Perhaps she made the story up.
(11) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
(12) Her husband shared in her beliefs but lost all delusional conviction after she was compulsorily admitted to a special hospital.
(13) Possible reasons for the consistence or non-consistence of delusional content are discussed.
(14) The longer the session went on, the greater the fears for Big Phil’s mental health became, for by now he was showing signs of delusional psychosis.
(15) 62 min: "People accusing Chelsea of negative tactics are completely delusional," writes Philip Podolsky.
(16) In variants nearer to shiftlike schizophrenia, the affective disorders in the framework of the attack gradually lose their intensity, while the hallucinatory delusional symptomatology acquires a tendency towards a systematization.
(17) So Deniker and Ginestet categorized neuroleptics on the basis of their behavioural efficacy and distinguished sedative neuroleptics from anti-delusional neuroleptics and anti-autistic neuroleptics.
(18) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
(19) Delusional depressives had a higher total score than non-delusional depressives on Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression, as well as a higher score for depressed mood and psychomotor retardation.
(20) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.