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Confusion
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Definition of 'Confusion'A mental state characterized by bewilderment, emotional disturbance, lack of clear thinking, and perceptual disorientation. Common names: Confusion; Confusional State; Confusional States; State, Confusional; States, Confusional; Disorientation; Confusion, Reactive; Reactive Confusion; Bewilderment; Confusion, Post-Ictal; Confusion, Post Ictal; Post-Ictal Confusion |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Emergence from minimally conscious state: insights from evaluation of posttraumatic confusion.
4 Oct 2009 
BACKGROUND: Guidelines for defining the minimally conscious state (MCS) specify behaviors that characterize emergence, including "reliable and consistent" functional communication (accurate yes/no responding). Guidelines were developed by consensus ... Read more...
29 Sep 2009 Sherer M, Yablon SA, Nakase-Richardson R. Patterns of recovery of posttraumatic confusional state in neurorehabilitation admissions after traumatic brain injury. OBJECTIVE: To provide preliminary descriptions of patterns of resolution of symptoms of ... Read more...
Motivated comprehension regulation: vigilant versus eager metacognitive control.
30 Aug 2009 The more accurately people assess their comprehension, the more likely they are to engage in study behaviors that precisely target gaps in their learning. However, comprehension regulation involves more than knowing when to implement a new study ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Confusion'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Emergence from minimally conscious state: insights from evaluation of posttraumatic confusion. 4 Oct 2009
- Cough, confusion and flaccid paralysis in a 46-year old man with left apical consolidation and ring-enhancing lesions on cerebral imaging.
29 Sep 2009 - Patterns of recovery of posttraumatic confusional state in neurorehabilitation admissions after traumatic brain injury. 29 Sep 2009
- A seaman with blindness and confusion. 28 Sep 2009
- Motivated comprehension regulation: vigilant versus eager metacognitive control. 30 Aug 2009
- Medical certification for pilots of commercial suborbital spaceflights. 30 Aug 2009
- Use of self-to-object and object-to-object spatial relations in locomotion. 30 Aug 2009
- [Supratentorial endodermal cyst. Case report] 30 Jul 2009
- [Intoxication with cyclopentolate eye drops] 30 Jul 2009
- Older adult surgical patients: presentation and challenges. 30 Jul 2009
- Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
- 68-year-old woman with confusion. 30 Jul 2009
- Seizures in Alzheimer disease: who, when, and how common? 30 Jul 2009
- Acute confusional syndrome from a dural arteriovenous fistula. 29 Jun 2009
- Plasma level of atropine after accidental ingestion of Atropa belladonna. 29 Jun 2009
- The lived experience of initial symptoms of and factors triggering epileptic seizures. 23 Jun 2009
- Validation of a German version of the Confusion Assessment Method for delirium detection in a sample of acute geriatric patients with a high prevalence of dementia. 10 Jun 2009
- Teaching NeuroImages: the full-blown neuroimaging of Wernicke encephalopathy. 31 May 2009
- [On extubation, residual curarization, and their circumstances] 30 May 2009
- Factors determining nurses' clinical judgments about hospitalized elderly patients with acute confusion. 30 May 2009
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Technical information about 'Confusion'
Definition: A mental state characterized by bewilderment, emotional disturbance, lack of clear thinking, and perceptual disorientation.
Descriptor UI: D003221
Alternative terms: Confusion; Confusional State; Confusional States; State, Confusional; States, Confusional; Disorientation; Confusion, Reactive; Reactive Confusion; Bewilderment; Confusion, Post-Ictal; Confusion, Post Ictal; Post-Ictal Confusion;
Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;
Tree Number: C10.597.606.337; C23.888.592.604.339; F01.700.250;
Online Note: search COGNITION DISORDERS 1969-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under COGNITION DISORDERS 1975-90