Thinking Disturbances in Delirium

Communication in medicine*

“…how appropriate a response was to a question) distinguished such patients, who gave irrelevant replies, from those with aphasia, dementia or speech apraxia. Levin (1956) described it as a failure to make connections and provided, as an example, a patient who thought it was Easter because he heard a nurse discussing eggs! Disturbances in speech present at every age to the psychiatrist.…”

Communication in medicine*

“…how appropriate a response was to a question) distinguished such patients, who gave irrelevant replies, from those with aphasia, dementia or speech apraxia. Levin (1956) described it as a failure to make connections and provided, as an example, a patient who thought it was Easter because he heard a nurse discussing eggs! Disturbances in speech present at every age to the psychiatrist.…”

Communication in medicine*

“…how appropriate a response was to a question) distinguished such patients, who gave irrelevant replies, from those with aphasia, dementia or speech apraxia. Levin (1956) described it as a failure to make connections and provided, as an example, a patient who thought it was Easter because he heard a nurse discussing eggs! Disturbances in speech present at every age to the psychiatrist.…”

Communication in medicine*

“…how appropriate a response was to a question) distinguished such patients, who gave irrelevant replies, from those with aphasia, dementia or speech apraxia. Levin (1956) described it as a failure to make connections and provided, as an example, a patient who thought it was Easter because he heard a nurse discussing eggs! Disturbances in speech present at every age to the psychiatrist.…”