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Acute Confusion, Amnesia and Dementia

CONFUSED

Each impaired cognitive function can lead to confusion, for example, reduced the clarity and coherence of thought, perception, understanding, or action. Confused often the first description of a cognitive disorder to be taken by a family member or examiner. Confused also appears as a complaint that occurs in focal disorders of cognitive functions such as aphasia or visuospatial agnosia, but careful examination shows that the confusion associated with a single deficit.

Acute confusional states is a common syndrome, consists of a global disruption of cognitive function are accompanied by deficit of attention and awareness. Cognitive impairment typically include orientation changes, abnormal perception, impaired reasoning, and poor memory. Various types of causes may be responsible.


DELIRIUM

Delirium is synonymous with acute confusional states, though, speak forcefully, and explains a variety of acute confusional states separated clinically characterized by periods of restlessness, mental activity is rising, easily awakened, preparedness clear in responding to particular stimuli (such as noise suddenly), disturbing visual hallucinations, hyperactivity motor, and autonomic stimulation. Attention disorders, it is important in acute confusional states, occurred despite the revival in sight. Agitation delirium typically fluctuate and are subject to change or progress to a state of confusion dim. The clinical picture shown by the state of hallucination joy of delirium tremens that accompany the cessation of drinking alcohol. However, delirium may be seen in acute confusional states from any cause.

DEMENTIA

This situation is a syndrome of global cognitive impairment or multifocal obtained regarding the decline in intellect, memory and personality with normal consciousness. Vigilance and attention of a relatively normal differentiating dementia from acute confusional states. The decline in intellectual function normally on the whole, but the diagnosis may be determined by the disruption of the scope of the following three: language, memory, visuospatial skills, emotions, personality, or cognitive. The loss of a single intellectual functions such as speech or memory, but damaging, not cukupDemensia not necessary progressive, and in some circumstances it may be modified or terminated with appropriate treatment. It is therefore important to know dementia as a syndrome with a couple of causes.
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