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Phenomenology of delirium. Assessment of 100 adult cases using standardised measuresDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, and Statistical Consulting Unit, University of Limerick, Ireland
Br J Psychiatry 190:135-41. 2007..Delirium phenomenology is understudied...
Motor symptoms in 100 patients with delirium versus control subjects: comparison of subtyping methodsDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital and Health Systems Research Unit, Univ of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Psychosomatics 49:300-8. 2008..Different motor presentations of delirium may represent clinically meaningful subtypes...- Phenomenological distinctions needed in DSM-V: delirium, subsyndromal delirium, and dementiasDavid Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:468-70. 2007 - A new data-based motor subtype schema for deliriumDavid Meagher
Department of Health Systems Research, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 20:185-93. 2008..This new scale is derived from existing approaches but is more concise, focused on motor disturbances, and validated against nondelirious comparison subjects and independently rated motor disturbance... - A longitudinal study of motor subtypes in delirium: frequency and stability during episodesDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
J Psychosom Res 72:236-41. 2012..Motor-defined subtypes are a promising means of identifying clinically relevant patient subgroups but little is known about their course and stability during a delirium episode... - A longitudinal study of motor subtypes in delirium: relationship with other phenomenology, etiology, medication exposure and prognosisDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
J Psychosom Res 71:395-403. 2011..Motor subtypes have promise as a means of identifying clinically relevant delirium subgroups. Little is known about their relationship to etiologies, medication exposure, and outcomes... - A comparison of neuropsychiatric and cognitive profiles in delirium, dementia, comorbid delirium-dementia and cognitively intact controlsDavid J Meagher
University of Limerick Medical School, Limerick, Ireland
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 81:876-81. 2010..Delirium symptoms overshadow dementia symptoms when they co-occur, but delirium phenomenology in comorbid cases has not been compared to both conditions alone... - Defining delirium for the International Classification of Diseases, 11th RevisionDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
J Psychosom Res 65:207-14. 2008..The development of ICD-11 provides an opportunity to update the description of delirium according to emerging data that have added to our understanding of this complex neuropsychiatric syndrome... - Impact of an educational workshop upon attitudes towards pharmacotherapy for deliriumDavid J Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
Int Psychogeriatr 22:938-46. 2010..There is uncertainty regarding the optimal use of pharmacological strategies in delirium particularly regarding preferred agents, duration of treatment and effectiveness in different populations... - Longitudinal assessment of psychopathological domains over late-stage schizophrenia in relation to duration of initially untreated psychosis: 3-year prospective study in a long-term inpatient populationDavid J Meagher
Department of Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
Psychiatry Res 126:217-27. 2004..It would appear that as years of chronic, refractory illness accrue, psychomotor poverty becomes more sharply delineated and dominant within the overall structure of psychopathology, and its prominence is predicted enduringly by DUP... - Motion analysis in delirium: a wavelet based approach for sub classificationAlan Godfrey
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008:3574-7. 2008..The procedures were well tolerated and motor presentations were readily distinguished using the accelerometry-based measurements... - Symptoms of depression and delirium assessed serially in palliative-care inpatientsMaeve Leonard
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
Psychosomatics 50:506-14. 2009..Delirium occurs in approximately 1 in 5 general hospital admissions and up to 85% of patients with terminal illness, but can be difficult to differentiation from other disorders, such as depression... - Motion analysis in delirium: a novel method of clarifying motoric subtypesMaeve Leonard
Department of Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
Neurocase 13:272-7. 2007..Electronic motion analysis concurs with observed gross movement and can distinguish motorically defined subtypes according to quantitative and qualitative aspects of movement... - Motor subtypes of delirium: past, present and futureDavid Meagher
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Midwestern Regional Hospital, Limerick, Health Systems Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Int Rev Psychiatry 21:59-73. 2009..Possibilities for future work are discussed and a research plan for the field is outlined... - A comparison of the phenomenology of pediatric, adult, and geriatric deliriumAlbert F G Leentjens
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Maastricht, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 64:219-23. 2008..The phenomenology of delirium in childhood is understudied... - The European delirium associationAlasdair M J MacLullich
Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland
J Psychosom Res 62:397-8. 2007