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==Overview==
==Overview==
==History, Complications and Prognosis==
==History, Complications and Prognosis==
The patient may suffer from emotional disturbances, such as anxiety, fear, depression, irritability, anger, euphoria, and apathy.  Affective lability, with rapid and unpredictable shifts from one emotional state to another occurs in delirium.<ref>{{Cite web  | last =  | first =  | title = http://psychiatryonline.org/content.aspx?bookID=28&sectionID=1663978 | url = http://psychiatryonline.org/content.aspx?bookID=28&sectionID=1663978 | publisher =  | date =  | accessdate = }}</ref>
 
 


==Duration==
==Duration==

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The duration of delirium is typically affected by the underlying cause. If caused by a fever, the delirious state often subsides as the severity of the fever subsides. However, it has long been suspected that in some cases delirium persists for months and that it may even be associated with permanent decrements in cognitive function. Barrough said in 1583 that if delirium resolves, it may be followed by a "loss of memory and reasoning power." Recent studies bear this out, with cognitively normal patients who suffer an episode of delirium carrying an increased risk of dementia in the years that follow. In many such cases, however, delirium undoubtedly does not have a causal nature, but merely functions as a temporary unmasking with stress, of a previously unsuspected (but well-compensated) state of minimal brain dysfunction (early dementia).

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