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  2. Confusion Assessment Method - Wikipedia

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    The Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) is a diagnostic tool developed to allow physicians and nurses to identify delirium in the healthcare setting. [1] It was designed to be brief (less than 5 minutes to perform) and based on criteria from the third edition-revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R) .

  3. Confabulation - Wikipedia

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    Treatment for confabulation is somewhat dependent on the cause or source, if identifiable. For example, treatment of Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome involves large doses of vitamin B in order to reverse the thiamine deficiency. [62] If there is no known physiological cause, more general cognitive techniques may be used to treat confabulation.

  4. Memory error - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, without being able to confirm the source of the memory, the individual may accept the false memory as true. Three factors may be responsible for the implantation of false autobiographical memories. The first factor is time. As time passes, memories fade. Therefore, source confusion may result due to time delay. [7]

  5. Delirium - Wikipedia

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    Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term that is now discouraged) [1] is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, which usually develops over the course of hours to days.

  6. Altered level of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    A confused person may be bewildered, disoriented, and have difficulty following instructions. [9] The person may have slow thinking and possible memory time loss. This could be caused by sleep deprivation, malnutrition, allergies, environmental pollution, drugs (prescription and nonprescription), and infection. Delirious

  7. Confusion - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, confusion is the quality or state of being bewildered or unclear. The term "acute mental confusion" [ 1 ] is often used interchangeably with delirium [ 2 ] in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and the Medical Subject Headings publications to describe the pathology .

  8. People who knew Luigi Mangione describe him as 'thoughtful ...

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    Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged with murder late Monday in the Dec. 4 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City after police in Altoona, Pa., were called to a McDonald’s ...

  9. Misattribution of memory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the misattribution of memory or source misattribution is the misidentification of the origin of a memory by the person making the memory recall.Misattribution is likely to occur when individuals are unable to monitor and control the influence of their attitudes, toward their judgments, at the time of retrieval. [1]