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Psychiatry Symptoms and signs in psychiatry and classification 951fdc18

True about delirium are all except

A
Preserved attention
B
Disturbed sleep
C
Disorientation
D
Hallucination
High-Yield Explanation
Delirium is characterized by an acute decline in both the level of consciousness and cognition with paicular impairment in attention. A life threatening, yet potentially reversible disorder of the central nervous system (CNS), delirium often involves perceptual disturbances, abnormal psychomotor activity, and sleep cycle impairment. Reference: Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry, 11th Edition, page 697.

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