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Disturbance of Neural Systems in Delirium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Yasuo Hishikawa
Yasuo Hishikawa
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
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Extract

I have been asked to comment upon some of the themes raised by the three papers in this section, on etiologic models and their phenomenological variants. I will discuss them briefly and will also comment on some additional findings of interest.

Type
Etiological Models and their Phenomenological Variants
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 409 - 414
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© 1991 Springer Publishing Company

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Footnotes

Comments which provide perspectives from an author outside of North America. This discussion describes an interesting aspect of ongoing research in Japan. Some neurological insults, e.g., alcohol withdrawal, can produce both delirium and dissociated sleep-wake states, and such conditions may involve both generalized and focal brain dysfunction. Although none of the papers in this issue focuses implicitly on changes in sleep in delirium, these comments represent an interesting contribution.