
:''This article is about the mental state. See Delirium (Sandman) for the character.'' Delirium is a medicine term used to describe a mental state. Delirium is probably the single most common acute disorder affecting adults in general hospitals. It affects 10-20% of all adults in hospital, and 30-40% in older patients. There are several definitions (including those in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and ICD-10). However, all include some core features. The core features are: * disturbance of consciousness (that is, reduced clarity of awareness of the environment, with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention * change in cognition (eg. memory impairment) or a perceptual disturbance * onset of hours to days, and tendency to fluctuate. Common features include: * intrusive abnormalities of awareness and affect, such as hallucination or innappropriate emotional states. Delirium should be distinguished from psychosis, in which consciousness and cognition may not be impaired, and dementia which describes an acquired intellectual impairment usually resulting from a degenerative brain disease. Delirium may be caused by severe physical or mental illness. Fever, poison (including toxic drug reactions), brain injury, surgery, severe lack of food or water, drug and severe alcohol withdrawal are all known to cause delirium. It is also referred to as 'acute confusional state' or 'acute brain syndrome'. ===Impairment of consciousness=== A delirious person may have a clouding of awareness and consciousness. This impairment of consciousness typically fluctates, so the person may be aroused and alert for short periods of time before again relapsing into a clouded state. Fluctation may follow a pattern of diurnal variation, where consciousness levels change as the day progresses. Typically, a delirious person may be more consciousness impaired in the evening and at night. ===Confusion and disorientation=== Confusion may occur in delirium, where the sufferer loses the capacity for clear and coherent thought. It may be apparent in disorganised or incoherent speech, the inability to concentrate or a lack of goal directed thinking. Disorientation describes the loss of awareness of the surroundings, environment and context in which the person exists. Disorientation may occur in time (not knowing what time of day, day of week, month, season or year it is), place (not know where you are) or person (not knowing who you are). ===Cognitive Impairments=== Impairments to cognition may include reduction in the function of short or long term memory, attention or problem solving. ===Abnormalities of Awareness and Affect=== hallucination (perceived sensory experience with the lack of an external source) or distortions of reality may occur in delirium. Commonly these are visual distortions, and can take the form of masses of small crawling creatures (particularly common in delirium tremens, caused by severe alcohol withdrawal) or distortions in size or intensity of the surrounding environment. Strange belief may also be held during a delirious state, but these are not considered delusion in the clinical sense as they are considered too short lived. Interestingly, in some cases sufferers may be left with false or delusional memories after delirium, basing their memories on the confused thinking or sensory distortion which occurred. Abnormalities of affect include any distortions to perceived or communicated emotion states. Emotional states may also fluctate, so a person may rapidly change between, for example, terror, sadness and jocularity. ===Duration=== The duration of delirium is typically affected by the underlying cause. If caused by a fever, the delirious state should subside as does the severity of the fever. ===Accounts of delirium=== Sims (1995, p31) points out a "superb detailed and lengthy description" of delirium in The Stroller's Tale from Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. ===Further reading=== * Sims, A. (1995) Symptoms in the mind: An introduction to descriptive psychopathology. Edinburgh: Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0702026271
* Dickens, C. (1837) The Pickwick Papers. Available for free on Project Gutenberg * [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14966146&dopt=Abstract Burns A, Gallagley A, Byrne J. (2004)] Delirium. ''Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry'', 75 (3), 362-7. Cognitive disorders
Hi! Please leave your comments below. Comments prior to: * [http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Delirium&oldid=2035457 Dec. 24th, 2003]. * [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Delirium&oldid=4266597 June 28th, 2004]. ---- == Arbitration - subject: User:Mike Storm == I was just wondering if you could please post your vote on the subject of User:Mike Storm on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. I would like to get this matter dealt with with quickly, but you're probably busy so please take your time. Thanks! User:Mike_StormUser_talk:Mike_StormUser:Mike_Storm">User:Mike Storm|User:Mike StormUser talk:Mike StormUser:Mike Storm 17:07, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Malicious Deletion Attempt===
Hello. Sorry for the imposition, but I thought you might be interested to note that an article you supported in the past on vfd has been listed again under malicious circumstances - the 3rd such attempt in 7 months. Please feel free to review the discussion and cast your vote as you feel appropriate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium --User:Gene Poole 10:28, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Athos==
:''As for Athos, Greeks typically (at least in modern Greek) simply refer to mountains using the name, as typically only well-known mountains are referred to by name. Hence, the mountain is simply "Athos" (similarly, what would be called "Mount Olympus" in English is simply "Olymbos" in Greek). I suppose something like "to vouno Athos" ("the mountain 'Athos'") would be acceptable as well when context was unclear, but it is certainly not common. User:Delirium 07:43 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)''
Hello. This acknowledgement comes very late, but thanks for the explanation. User:Michael Hardy 00:44, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Ellas/Ellada==
Hello. In view of your ability to clarify the situation concerning the name ''Athos'', maybe you'd know the answer to this one too: During the recent TV coverage of the Olympics in Athens and on some web sites I find Greece referred to sometimes as ''Ellas'' and other times as ''Ellada''. I ''guessing'' that the former is nominative and the latter is accusative. Is that it? One page on the web that lists the participating countries in Greek gives ''Ellada''. But I'd have thought the nominative would be used by default. Does that make any sense? User:Michael Hardy 17:05, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
== Zero0000 sysop abuse claim ==
Delirium wrote in wikiEN-l:
:That's an odd position---you say he's making a dishonest claim that the
material is from a book, yet you have not actually checked whether it's
in the book or not? How do you know it's dishonest then?
:-Mark
Well said! The book currently is available in Hebrew only (to the best of my knowledge). A language that Zero0000 does not read despite residing in the area. He asks Danny to translate for him when he wants to read something. Evidence of this is available on Zero0000's talk page. User:Lance6Wins 19:09, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
== About Karaims ==
See Karaims Discussion--User:Björn-Isak Rosendahl 06:26, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
==Survey==
There is a Talk:Project_for_the_New_American_Century/Survey regarding a disputed paragraph in the PNAC article that you might be interested in. User:Kevin baas | User_talk:Kevin_baas 19:10, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC)
=="Dishonesty"==
I don't get mad easily (not once so far on Wikipedia) but you pushed the wrong button buster. There was nothing "dishonest" about my marking an added return as a minor edit. No text was changed, no secret agenda, no POV, nothing. (As to the actual matter in question, your browser may show a huge space; mine, without that return, shows the stub text crammed up against the text of the articles.) — User:Bill Thayer 23:23, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
== Reverting news ==
Hello Delirium, could you please explain the rationale behind reverting my revert for the same reason I reverted the article in the first place? It seems to me that either we remove all the entries that do not link to an updated article, or we change the guidelines. As it is now there is no consistency and the guidelines are blatantly ignored. The Iraq article you removed received a major update (albeit it to a list type article), and was listed for 2 days, so it seems to me it should have stayed. Regards, User:Solitude\User_talk:Solitude ">User:Solitude|User:Solitude\User_talk:Solitude 15:59, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
==People of Arab ethnicity who are citizens of Israel==
Mustafaa and I turned Israeli Arabs into something halfway between a REDIRECT and a decent article. Any suggestions for improvement? User:Ed Poor user talk:Ed Poor 12:39, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Arbitration ==
As a courtesy, I wanted to let you know that I have raised the question of your continued participation on the Arbitration Committee at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee. --User:Michael Snow 06:30, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
==US Election issues==
Do you and maybe a couple of others working on this article want to meet on say wiki IRC, to discuss it, so we can try and mutually agree a consensus on its progress? User:FT2 00:18, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
== Actually Exit Polling Is Reliable ==
There are 2 issues, exit polling is historically reliable, but in any given situation like this one data may be wrong. Which is why it is important to figure out why there were exit polling vs actual results discrepancies (assuming there was no fraud) so exit polling techniques can be improved for the next election. So I believe you should have said it's the data that may be wrong for one reason or another, not exit polling in total.
==Trend==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=2004_U.S._Election_controversies_and_irregularities&diff=7322130&oldid=7321985]
*Do you have any sources to verify this alleged trend?
*Also "however" and "corrected" are subtle pov.
*And in general statistical analysis should not be "corrected". They should be done on raw data, and synthesized afterwards.
User:Kevin baas | User_talk:Kevin_baas 02:15, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)
== Keeping "In the news" NPOV and credible ==
Following various attempts to add partisan and fringe stories to :Template:In the news, I've proposed a new criterion to keep such stuff out. Could you please take a look at Wikipedia talk:In the news section on the Main Page#Added new criterion to ITN guidelines and let me know what you think? -- User:ChrisO 19:12, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
==list of exponential topics==
:''This list does nothing that categories don't do, as it's just a list of pages with membership in the semantic category. I can see an argument for keeping lists with a particular sort of organization, but if it's just a flat "on the list" or "not on the list" distinction, categories are equivalent and more maintainable. --User:Delirium 19:36, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)''
This list ''now'' does something that categories cannot do. I have added invisible links so that edits to discussion pages will also appear when one clicks on "related changes". Even lists that cannot do what categories cannot do have the potential to do so with some editing. Not only what I just did, but also consider list of combinatorics topics or list of geometry topics, in which the lists are ''organized''. Categories cannot be organized -- only alphabetized. User:Michael Hardy 01:57, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
==New Gzornenplatz et al proposed temp order==
Please vote for, against, or abstain in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gzornenplatz,_Kevin_Baas,_Shorne,_VeryVerily/Proposed_decision#Proposed_temporary_orders proposed temporary order #3 in the Gzornenplatz et al case]. --User:Maveric149 21:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Wikinews demo up and running ==
Hi!
I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the m:Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at [http://demo.wikinews.org demo.wikinews.org]. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later.
You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a [http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l global Wikinews mailing list] for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an Internet Relay Chat channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles.
If you're looking for something to do, check out the [http://demo.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Articles_in_development articles in development] and [http://demo.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Articles_in_review articles in review]. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--User:EloquenceUser:Eloquence/CP 01:58, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
== Arb against Ta bu ==
Can I ask why you withdrew the request, and what specifically made you want to place it? -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 22:57, 2004 Nov 17 (UTC)
== Lilypond ==
You're right. Lilypond as a markup language leaves a great deal to be desired. It is difficult to understand even for people with both a musical and a software background, and as you point out has a great deal of typographical cruft that has nothing to do with the musical idea being presented.
However, it is the best of the free solutions that we have today, and the situation is unlikely to change. There is a "music XML" project that is, at best, early stage, and that is encumbered by copyright. There are the widely used proprietary formats. And there are some "way out there" standards being proposed, that appear to me unlikely to come to fruition.
There are several barriers to a standardized music markup, chief among them being that proper music notation really can't be reduced to a simple grammar. There are so many instrument-specific, period-specific, and genre-specific things to portray that it's hard. I play organ, and organ notation uses heel and toe markings that, as far as I know, are not used for any other instrument (except maybe pedal piano). Accordion notation is another similar can of worms. This leaves aside more common instruments, like piano and strings and voice, that each have their own unique (albeit well understood) notational conventions.
Anyway, you probably already know most or all this, but the point is that with all the complexity, and the market fragmentation, and the small size of the classical music community, and the fact that music publishing is not particularly profitable, it is unlikely that any future standards effort will be more successful than the previous ones.
So we are left with Lilypond, which with all its shortcomings for what we want to do, is the best available and likely to remain so for quite some time.
User:UninvitedCompany Co., User_talk:UninvitedCompany 23:16, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I noted in your abstain comment that you acknowledged that punishment for violating 3RR is somewhat "retroactive". I fully agree, and wonder why then you support the extremely harsh remedies for my past violation of this "rule" of hitherto uncertain status in the earlier proposed rulings. User:VeryVerilyUser talk:VeryVerily 11:13, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Your status on the Arbitration Committee ==
When I originally raised this question, you commented that "I would have resigned already if I was under the impression that there were suitable candidates interested in the position." [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee&diff=7181525&oldid=7180602] I understand that the experience with the last election persuaded you that this was not the case.
However, discussions of the current election have continued with at least the possibility in mind that your position could be up for election. As the election approaches, I think it would be best to settle this question so that we know for sure how many positions are being elected, and I have brought the issue up again at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004#Time to make some decisions.
It seems clear that this election is rather different from the last one, and that more qualified candidates have come forward in response to the additional openings. But obviously everyone will have their own opinions on the current slate of candidates and whether there are actually enough good ones to fill all of the potential vacancies. Accordingly, with your earlier statement in mind, I wanted to ask you if you would simply comment on whether you believe resigning at this point would be suitable or not. I'm not trying to push your decision in either direction, just looking to get some closure on the issue, and I'll respect and support your choice either way. --User:Michael Snow 19:08, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've started the User:rambot which has the goals of getting users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to...
#...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
#...all articles...
using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') version 1.0 and 2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Wikipedia:Multi-licensing for more information). Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles.
:Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
:
Hi, I'm Delirium. I'm almost always listening to music of some sort. Currently my favorites are EBM, Industrial music, synthpop, futurepop, neofolk (article forthcoming, eventually), and various sorts of assorted avant garde stuff. I'm a computer science person with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, particularly creativity, and am also quite interested in cognitive science and philosophy. I have a bachelor's degree in CS now, and am working on a PhD in same. ==Stuff I've Written== Here's a list of articles I've started. Originally I wrote most of these articles in their entirety, and some are still mostly my work, but since some have now been here for upwards of two years, many no longer resemble my original articles very closely. Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Only articles of "significant" length are here; short 3-sentence ones are omitted. I write a lot of biographies, because they're generally fairly straight-forward: I just have to search Google to find the factual information, and don't have to worry too much about how to organize it all, since a simple chronological order almost always suffices. Some of the people I've written biographies on I hadn't even heard of before, so it's educational too. Of course, editing an encyclopedia is a pretty educational hobby to begin with, eh? As of late I spend a great deal of my time keeping the Wiki reasonably clean (deleting nonsense people add, reverting vandalism, etc.), and cleaning up the formatting of entries made by new users. I still write some articles of my own though, which are listed below for vanity purposes (and partly to remind me). I also contribute sometimes to the [http://el.wikipedia.org Greek wikipedia]; see my [http://el.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Delirium contributions page there] if you're interested. ===Music=== *Genres **Electronic Body Music **Futurepop * Groups **Bad Religion (various portions) **VNV Nation ===Philosophy=== *Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations) *Hypothetical imperative *Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher *Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher ===History and Politics=== *Biographies **Mahmoud Abbas (major portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority **Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia) **Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat **Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall **Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople **Denis Burke -- Australian politician **Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959 **Lawrence Eagleburger -- United States statesman and diplomat **E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted United Kingdom anthropologist **Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman **Gregor Gysi -- former East Germany and current Germany politician **Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims **Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel **Salim Jubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court **Siegfried Kampl -- Austrian politician embroiled a 2005 row over controversial remarks about Nazis **Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka **Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967 **Romano Prodi -- former Italy Prime Minister of Italy; current President of the European Commission of the European Commission **Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician **Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice **Urukagina -- 24th century BC ruler of Lagash in Mesopotamia **C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod *Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico *Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese *Coat of Arms of Australia (about half) *Dodecanese -- Greek island group *Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) *Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy *Herat province -- in Afghanistan *Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-1850s US nativist movement *List of earthquakes (various) *Loyal Legion -- society of United States Civil War veterans, and now their descendents *Montecristo -- Italy islet *Mount Kyllini -- Greece mountain *Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake *Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx *Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997 *Simi -- Greece island in the Dodecanese *Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India *Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine ===Arts and Literature=== *Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language *Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something *Hymn to Freedom (literal English translation) *Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist *Justin Pierce -- actor in ''Kids (movie)'' *Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko *William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature ===Math and Science=== *Computer-related **Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content) **Guido **Identifier naming convention **Myhill-Nerode Theorem **Neural network (section on Simple Recurrent Networks) **Type polymorphism **Xiph.org Foundation *Haplodiploidy -- one sex haploid; one diploid *Henry Darcy -- France hydraulics researcher *Darcy-Weisbach equation *Empirical relationship *Guido Fubini -- Italy mathematician *Prony equation *Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale *Three cottage problem *Josef Hoene-Wronski -- eccentric philosopher of mathematics *Wronskian ===Alcoholic Beverages=== *Anise-flavored liqueurs **Anisette **Herbsaint **Ouzo **Pastis *Commandaria *List of wine producing regions (Greek wine regions) ===Random=== *Chigger *Claremont Colleges *Cross-quarter day (major portion) *Insanity *JeffK (major portion) *Yosemite Decimal System
Hi there, I've replaced the original initial sentence of this entry. In the case of this entry the construction "In medicine, delirium is a mental state for which are several definitions exist" (sic) is (grammer aside) an incoherent definition. Since there are several definitions, the word 'delirium' must be a term. Suggesting that 'delerium is a mental state' is fine in everyday language but in an encyclopedia it is important to describe the fact that it may be used in many different ways and that there are competing theories as to what it is actually refers to. -- User:Vaughan -----
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:''This article is about the mental state. See Delirium (Sandman) for the character.'' Delirium is a medicine term used to describe a mental state. Delirium is probably the single most common acute disorder affecting adults in general hospitals. It affects 10-20% of all adults in hospital, and 30-40% in older patients. There are several definitions (including those in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and ICD-10). However, all include some core features. The core features are: * disturbance of consciousness (that is, reduced clarity of awareness of the environment, with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention * change in cognition (eg. memory impairment) or a perceptual disturbance * onset of hours to days, and tendency to fluctuate. Common features include: * intrusive abnormalities of awareness and affect, such as hallucination or innappropriate emotional states. Delirium should be distinguished from psychosis, in which consciousness and cognition may not be impaired, and dementia which describes an acquired intellectual impairment usually resulting from a degenerative brain disease. Delirium may be caused by severe physical or mental illness. Fever, poison (including toxic drug reactions), brain injury, surgery, severe lack of food or water, drug and severe alcohol withdrawal are all known to cause delirium. It is also referred to as 'acute confusional state' or 'acute brain syndrome'. ===Impairment of consciousness=== A delirious person may have a clouding of awareness and consciousness. This impairment of consciousness typically fluctates, so the person may be aroused and alert for short periods of time before again relapsing into a clouded state. Fluctation may follow a pattern of diurnal variation, where consciousness levels change as the day progresses. Typically, a delirious person may be more consciousness impaired in the evening and at night. ===Confusion and disorientation=== Confusion may occur in delirium, where the sufferer loses the capacity for clear and coherent thought. It may be apparent in disorganised or incoherent speech, the inability to concentrate or a lack of goal directed thinking. Disorientation describes the loss of awareness of the surroundings, environment and context in which the person exists. Disorientation may occur in time (not knowing what time of day, day of week, month, season or year it is), place (not know where you are) or person (not knowing who you are). ===Cognitive Impairments=== Impairments to cognition may include reduction in the function of short or long term memory, attention or problem solving. ===Abnormalities of Awareness and Affect=== hallucination (perceived sensory experience with the lack of an external source) or distortions of reality may occur in delirium. Commonly these are visual distortions, and can take the form of masses of small crawling creatures (particularly common in delirium tremens, caused by severe alcohol withdrawal) or distortions in size or intensity of the surrounding environment. Strange belief may also be held during a delirious state, but these are not considered delusion in the clinical sense as they are considered too short lived. Interestingly, in some cases sufferers may be left with false or delusional memories after delirium, basing their memories on the confused thinking or sensory distortion which occurred. Abnormalities of affect include any distortions to perceived or communicated emotion states. Emotional states may also fluctate, so a person may rapidly change between, for example, terror, sadness and jocularity. ===Duration=== The duration of delirium is typically affected by the underlying cause. If caused by a fever, the delirious state should subside as does the severity of the fever. ===Accounts of delirium=== Sims (1995, p31) points out a "superb detailed and lengthy description" of delirium in The Stroller's Tale from Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. ===Further reading=== * Sims, A. (1995) Symptoms in the mind: An introduction to descriptive psychopathology. Edinburgh: Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0702026271
* Dickens, C. (1837) The Pickwick Papers. Available for free on Project Gutenberg * [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14966146&dopt=Abstract Burns A, Gallagley A, Byrne J. (2004)] Delirium. ''Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry'', 75 (3), 362-7. Cognitive disorders
Delirium
Hi! Please leave your comments below. Comments prior to: * [http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Delirium&oldid=2035457 Dec. 24th, 2003]. * [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Delirium&oldid=4266597 June 28th, 2004]. ---- == Arbitration - subject: User:Mike Storm == I was just wondering if you could please post your vote on the subject of User:Mike Storm on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. I would like to get this matter dealt with with quickly, but you're probably busy so please take your time. Thanks! User:Mike_Storm
Delirium
Hi, I'm Delirium. I'm almost always listening to music of some sort. Currently my favorites are EBM, Industrial music, synthpop, futurepop, neofolk (article forthcoming, eventually), and various sorts of assorted avant garde stuff. I'm a computer science person with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, particularly creativity, and am also quite interested in cognitive science and philosophy. I have a bachelor's degree in CS now, and am working on a PhD in same. ==Stuff I've Written== Here's a list of articles I've started. Originally I wrote most of these articles in their entirety, and some are still mostly my work, but since some have now been here for upwards of two years, many no longer resemble my original articles very closely. Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Only articles of "significant" length are here; short 3-sentence ones are omitted. I write a lot of biographies, because they're generally fairly straight-forward: I just have to search Google to find the factual information, and don't have to worry too much about how to organize it all, since a simple chronological order almost always suffices. Some of the people I've written biographies on I hadn't even heard of before, so it's educational too. Of course, editing an encyclopedia is a pretty educational hobby to begin with, eh? As of late I spend a great deal of my time keeping the Wiki reasonably clean (deleting nonsense people add, reverting vandalism, etc.), and cleaning up the formatting of entries made by new users. I still write some articles of my own though, which are listed below for vanity purposes (and partly to remind me). I also contribute sometimes to the [http://el.wikipedia.org Greek wikipedia]; see my [http://el.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Delirium contributions page there] if you're interested. ===Music=== *Genres **Electronic Body Music **Futurepop * Groups **Bad Religion (various portions) **VNV Nation ===Philosophy=== *Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations) *Hypothetical imperative *Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher *Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher ===History and Politics=== *Biographies **Mahmoud Abbas (major portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority **Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia) **Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat **Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall **Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople **Denis Burke -- Australian politician **Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959 **Lawrence Eagleburger -- United States statesman and diplomat **E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted United Kingdom anthropologist **Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman **Gregor Gysi -- former East Germany and current Germany politician **Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims **Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel **Salim Jubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court **Siegfried Kampl -- Austrian politician embroiled a 2005 row over controversial remarks about Nazis **Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka **Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967 **Romano Prodi -- former Italy Prime Minister of Italy; current President of the European Commission of the European Commission **Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician **Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice **Urukagina -- 24th century BC ruler of Lagash in Mesopotamia **C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod *Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico *Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese *Coat of Arms of Australia (about half) *Dodecanese -- Greek island group *Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) *Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy *Herat province -- in Afghanistan *Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-1850s US nativist movement *List of earthquakes (various) *Loyal Legion -- society of United States Civil War veterans, and now their descendents *Montecristo -- Italy islet *Mount Kyllini -- Greece mountain *Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake *Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx *Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997 *Simi -- Greece island in the Dodecanese *Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India *Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine ===Arts and Literature=== *Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language *Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something *Hymn to Freedom (literal English translation) *Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist *Justin Pierce -- actor in ''Kids (movie)'' *Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko *William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature ===Math and Science=== *Computer-related **Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content) **Guido **Identifier naming convention **Myhill-Nerode Theorem **Neural network (section on Simple Recurrent Networks) **Type polymorphism **Xiph.org Foundation *Haplodiploidy -- one sex haploid; one diploid *Henry Darcy -- France hydraulics researcher *Darcy-Weisbach equation *Empirical relationship *Guido Fubini -- Italy mathematician *Prony equation *Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale *Three cottage problem *Josef Hoene-Wronski -- eccentric philosopher of mathematics *Wronskian ===Alcoholic Beverages=== *Anise-flavored liqueurs **Anisette **Herbsaint **Ouzo **Pastis *Commandaria *List of wine producing regions (Greek wine regions) ===Random=== *Chigger *Claremont Colleges *Cross-quarter day (major portion) *Insanity *JeffK (major portion) *Yosemite Decimal System
Delirium
Hi there, I've replaced the original initial sentence of this entry. In the case of this entry the construction "In medicine, delirium is a mental state for which are several definitions exist" (sic) is (grammer aside) an incoherent definition. Since there are several definitions, the word 'delirium' must be a term. Suggesting that 'delerium is a mental state' is fine in everyday language but in an encyclopedia it is important to describe the fact that it may be used in many different ways and that there are competing theories as to what it is actually refers to. -- User:Vaughan -----
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