- Section 1 The Subject Matter of and Approach to Psychiatry
- 1.3 Psychiatry as a worldwide public health problem
- 1.4 The history of psychiatry as a medical specialty
- 1.5 Ethics and values
- 1.6 The psychiatrist as a manager
- 1.7 Descriptive phenomenology
- 1.8 Assessment
- 1.9 Diagnosis and classification
- 1.10 From science to practice
- Section 2 The Scientific Basis of Psychiatric Aetiology
- 2.3 The contribution of neurosciences
- 2.4 The contribution of genetics
- 2.5 The contribution of psychological science
- 2.6 The contribution of social sciences
- 2.7 The contribution of epidemiology to psychiatric aetiology
- Section 3 Psychodynamic Contributions to Psychiatry
- Section 4 Clinical Syndromes of Adult Psychiatry
- 4.1 Delirium, dementia, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
- 4.1.1 Delirium
- 4.1.2 Dementia: Alzheimer's disease
- 4.1.3 Frontotemporal dementias
- 4.1.4 Prion disease
- 4.1.5 Dementia with Lewy bodies
- 4.1.6 Dementia in Parkinson's disease
- 4.1.7 Dementia due to Huntington's disease
- 4.1.8 Vascular dementia
- 4.1.9 Dementia due to HIV disease
- 4.1.10 The neuropsychiatry of head injury
- 4.1.11 Alcohol-related dementia (alcohol-induced dementia; alcohol-related brain damage)
- 4.1.12 Amnesic syndromes
- 4.1.13 The management of dementia
- 4.1.14 Remediation of memory disorders
- 4.2 Substance use disorders
- 4.3 Schizophrenia and acute transient psychotic disorders
- 4.4 Persistent delusional symptoms and disorders
- 4.5 Mood disorders
- 4.6 Stress-related and adjustment disorders
- 4.7 Anxiety disorders
- 4.8 Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- 4.9 Depersonalization disorder
- 4.10 Disorders of eating
- 4.11 Sexuality, gender identity, and their disorders
- 4.12 Personality disorders
- 4.13 Habit and impulse control disorder
- 4.14 Sleep–wake disorders
- 4.15 Suicide
- 4.16 Culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes
- Section 5 Psychiatry and Medicine
- Section 6 Treatment Methods in Psychiatry
- 6.2 Somatic treatments
- Section 7 Social Psychiatry and Service Provision
- Section 8 The Psychiatry of Old Age
- Section 9 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Section 10 Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation)
- Section 11 Forensic Psychiatry
(p. 325) Delirium, dementia, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome that occurs commonly across all age groups and healthcare settings. Significant adverse outcomes of delirium are increasingly recognized and can be reduced by a more consistent approach to detection that emphasizes disturbances of attention. Optimal management requires the collaborative efforts of carers and healthcare staff and judicious use of pharmacological and nonpharmacological strategies that concurrently manage underlying physical causes and the delirium itself. Greater clarity is needed regarding the prognostic relationship to dementia, phenomenology of prodromal, subsyndromal and syndromal delirium, and how risk factors, vulnerabilities, and treatment may vary across populations and treatment settings.
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- Section 1 The Subject Matter of and Approach to Psychiatry
- 1.3 Psychiatry as a worldwide public health problem
- 1.4 The history of psychiatry as a medical specialty
- 1.5 Ethics and values
- 1.6 The psychiatrist as a manager
- 1.7 Descriptive phenomenology
- 1.8 Assessment
- 1.9 Diagnosis and classification
- 1.10 From science to practice
- Section 2 The Scientific Basis of Psychiatric Aetiology
- 2.3 The contribution of neurosciences
- 2.4 The contribution of genetics
- 2.5 The contribution of psychological science
- 2.6 The contribution of social sciences
- 2.7 The contribution of epidemiology to psychiatric aetiology
- Section 3 Psychodynamic Contributions to Psychiatry
- Section 4 Clinical Syndromes of Adult Psychiatry
- 4.1 Delirium, dementia, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
- 4.1.1 Delirium
- 4.1.2 Dementia: Alzheimer's disease
- 4.1.3 Frontotemporal dementias
- 4.1.4 Prion disease
- 4.1.5 Dementia with Lewy bodies
- 4.1.6 Dementia in Parkinson's disease
- 4.1.7 Dementia due to Huntington's disease
- 4.1.8 Vascular dementia
- 4.1.9 Dementia due to HIV disease
- 4.1.10 The neuropsychiatry of head injury
- 4.1.11 Alcohol-related dementia (alcohol-induced dementia; alcohol-related brain damage)
- 4.1.12 Amnesic syndromes
- 4.1.13 The management of dementia
- 4.1.14 Remediation of memory disorders
- 4.2 Substance use disorders
- 4.3 Schizophrenia and acute transient psychotic disorders
- 4.4 Persistent delusional symptoms and disorders
- 4.5 Mood disorders
- 4.6 Stress-related and adjustment disorders
- 4.7 Anxiety disorders
- 4.8 Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- 4.9 Depersonalization disorder
- 4.10 Disorders of eating
- 4.11 Sexuality, gender identity, and their disorders
- 4.12 Personality disorders
- 4.13 Habit and impulse control disorder
- 4.14 Sleep–wake disorders
- 4.15 Suicide
- 4.16 Culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes
- Section 5 Psychiatry and Medicine
- Section 6 Treatment Methods in Psychiatry
- 6.2 Somatic treatments
- Section 7 Social Psychiatry and Service Provision
- Section 8 The Psychiatry of Old Age
- Section 9 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Section 10 Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation)
- Section 11 Forensic Psychiatry