Description: The first version of this book was published under the title Delirium: Acute Brain Failure in Man in 1980. The present version has been completely rewritten and brought up-to-date. While no major advances in the understanding of delirium have occurred in the past decade and the syndrome has continued to be neglected by researchers, progress in the neurosciences and in many other areas relevant to it necessitated a thorough revision of the original text. The title was changed because the term 'acute brain failure' has been cogently criticized for being misleading. The brain as a whole does not fail in delirium; instead, its highest integrative functions, those subserving reception, processing, and retrieval of information, become disorganized, rendering a delirious person more or less incapable of thinking and acting in a rational, goal-directed manner.

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