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Throughout the 19th and early-20th century, "excited delirium" was used to describe an emotional and agitated state related to drug overdose [19] and withdrawal [20] or poisonings, [21] similar to catatonia or Bell's mania, with some believing them to be the same condition.
They compared the thoughts and behaviors of the most important figures in the Bible, such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Paul, [76] with patients affected by mental disorders related to the psychotic spectrum using different clusters of disorders and diagnostic criteria , [77] and concluded that these Biblical figures "may have had psychotic ...
When catatonic features are prominent, it is diagnosed as excited catatonia and when absent or subtle, it is identified as Bell's mania. [12] Alternatively, the presence of delirium is recognized as the discerning factor. A difference between the two is that catatonia is viewed from a movement aspect, whereas delirium from consciousness. [7]
“Excited delirium has been debunked as a theory. It was shameful for the medical examiner to even suggest it. But it is consistent with how government officials in Milwaukee have treated Mr ...
An emergency physicians group is disavowing “excited delirium,” a controversial term that some police officers, clinicians, medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an ...
According to the bill, excited delirium means “a term used to describe a person’s state of agitation, excitability, paranoia, extreme aggression, physical violence, and apparent immunity to ...
Another controversial term, the widely rejected idea of excited delirium, is sometimes used interchangeably with ABD (although according to definitions adopted by the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians in England, "only about one-third of cases of ABD present as excited delirium"). [1]: 1
The attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd ’s death cited the disputed concept of excited delirium during closing arguments Monday ...