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+====== Differential diagnosis of agitation and confusion ======
+|Differential diagnosis of agitation and confusion</font>   |||||
+| |Delirium (acute confusional state)</font>   |Emotional reactions</font>   |Psychosis   |Dementia   |
+|Prevalence   |Common   |Common   |Rare as a new presentation in an acute hospital setting   |Extremely rare   |
+|Onset   |Acute or subacute   |Acute or acute-onchronic   ||Insidious   |
+|Course   |Fluctuating, usually resolves over days to weeks   |||Progressive   |
+|Conscious level   |Often impaired, can fluctuate rapidly   |Intact   | |Clear until later stages   |
+|Cognitive defects   |Poor short-term memory, poor attention span   |Absent   |Absent   |Poor short-term memory, attention less affected until severe   |
+|Hallucinations   |Common, especially visual   |None   |Auditory; third person   |Often absent   |
+|Delusions   |Fleeting, nonsystematized   |None   |Fixed and systematized   |Often absent   |
+|Psychomotor activity   |Increased, reduced or unpredictable   |Typically increased   ||Can be normal   |
+//Source: Forsyth R, Newton R, eds. Paediatric Neurology (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Paediatrics). 3 ed. ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2017. [[https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198784449.001.0001/med-9780198784449.//|https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198784449.001.0001/med-9780198784449.]]//
+// {{tag>neurolists}} //