Delirium is a sudden change in mental status that often occurs when older adults are in the hospital or after they have surgery. More than 20 percent of older adults may experience delirium. The ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mother is 78, and over the past two weeks, she has become really confused off and on. Before this, she seemed fine, other than having some problems with short-term memory loss.

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A major study published Monday finds that widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium. (Nehru Sulejmanovski/Getty Images) Powerful ...

A population heath study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Aging Research has determined that haloperidol, the drug most commonly used to treat delirium in hospital ...

A stay in a hospital’s intensive care unit is meant to heal patients physically, but too much time there can have the opposite impact on their mental health and brain function. That’s why Dr. Babar ...

If you are one of the 5.7 million Americans who ends up in the intensive care unit each year, you are at high risk of developing long-term mental effects like dementia and confusion. These mental ...

It's hard to find the term "excited delirium" in medical or mental health reference books. But where you will see it is in police reports detailing the bizarre behavior of individuals officers ...

Powerful drugs that have been used for decades to treat delirium are ineffective for that purpose, according to a study published online Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Antipsychotic ...

Powerful drugs that have been used for decades to treat delirium are ineffective for that purpose, according to a study published online Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Antipsychotic ...