clouding of consciousness

Clouding of consciousness is a global impairment in higher central nervous functioning.

This clouding of consciousness lasted for a few minutes or a few hours.

The term 'confusion state' is sometimes used to mean clouding of consciousness, but should be avoided if at all possible because it is ambiguous.

In this case, it can be said that clouding of consciousness is synonymous with subsyndromal delirium.

Yet other alternative medicine practitioners say that ongoing caffeine anaphylaxis can cause clouding of consciousness.

Psychometric tests produce little evidence of a relationship between clouding of consciousness and depersonalization.

The features included approximate or nonsensical answers to simple questions, perceptual abnormalities, and clouding of consciousness.

Clouding of consciousness is not the same thing as depersonalization even though both sufferers compare their experience to that of a dream.

There was an absence of clouding of consciousness or other cognitive impairment other than amnesia.

Epilepsy is marked by disturbed electrical rhythms in the brain and typically triggers occasional convulsions and clouding of consciousness.

Symptoms include a clouding of consciousness, somatic conversion symptoms, confusion, stress, loss of personal identity, echolalia, and echopraxia.

Doctors have long said that autointoxication causes clouding of consciousness and that this autointoxication is what is responsible for hepatic encephalopathy.

Both developed wildly disturbed behaviour of sudden onset with clouding of consciousness but without other, more typical, features of central nervous infection such as fever or neck rigidity.

An organic cause (acute confusional state or brain syndrome) may be differentiated from an acute functional psychosis by the presence of abnormal neurological signs, particularly clouding of consciousness.

The term clouding of consciousness has always denoted the main pathogenetic feature of delirium since Greiner first pioneered the term (Verdunkelung des Bewusstseins) in 1817.

Confusingly, however, there appears to be a trend among many doctors to now redefine clouding of consciousness to be less severe than delirium on a spectrum of abnormal consciousness.

Intestinal candidiasis (also known as candida-related complex or the yeast syndrome) causing "brain fog" in alternative medicine parallels candidiasis causing clouding of consciousness in conventional medicine.

It has some of the characteristics of simple schizophrenia, such as a confusional state and clouding of consciousness, but without presenting the dissociative symptoms which are typical of this disorder.

Ironically, modern conventional doctors label autointoxication itself as quackery while still maintaining that intestinal faecal toxins can poison the brain and cause hepatic encephalopathy (clouding of consciousness) if the liver fails to detoxify it.

Neurologists conceptualize clouding of consciousness in terms of a part of the brain regulating the "overall level" of the consciousness part of the brain responsible for awareness of oneself and of the environment.

During the 20th century, delirium was described as a 'clouding of consciousness' but this rather nebulous concept has been replaced by a better understanding of the components of phenomenology that culminate in severely impaired higher order brain functions.

Clouding of consciousness, also known as brain fog or mental fog, is a term used in conventional medicine denoting an abnormality in the "regulation" of the "overall level" of consciousness that is mild and less severe than a delirium.

NMS is a serious complication of neuroleptic drug treatment, with clouding of consciousness, autonomic dysregulation, notably hyperthermia, severe extrapyramidal symptoms such as akinesia (functional loss of movement) and rigidity, and pathological laboratory findings, including raised white blood cell count.

It is particularly useful in working with patients near death, since it permits patients to make decisions about, for example, the tradeoff between the amount of narcotic medication they receive against the clouding of consciousness they may experience as a result of these drugs.