*Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.; and †Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Evangelisches Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
J Clin Neurophysiol. 2013 Oct;30(5):438-42. doi: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e3182a73e31.
This article serves to (1) review the relationship of the terms "delirium" and "encephalopathy," (2) describe delirium as defined in current diagnostic systems, (3) summarize the epidemiology and theories of pathogenesis, (4) review clinical diagnostic approaches, and (5) highlight the history using EEG in the study of delirium in the psychiatric literature. Delirium is an important medical syndrome with significant implications; there is continued need for better physiologic measures of the underlying brain dysfunction.
(1) 回顾“谵妄”和“脑病”这两个术语的关系；(2) 描述当前诊断系统中定义的谵妄；(3) 总结其流行病学和发病机制理论；(4) 综述临床诊断方法；(5) 重点阐述脑电图在精神病学文献中研究谵妄的历史。谵妄是一种重要的医学综合征，具有重要意义；因此，仍需要更好的方法来衡量潜在的大脑功能障碍。
