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Pathophysiology of Delirium

D. C. Alsop, M. A. Fearing, K. Johnson, R. Sperling, T. G. Fong, and S. K. Inouye. The role of neuroimaging in elucidating delirium pathophysiology. J.Gerontol.A Biol.Sci.Med.Sci. 61 (12):1287-1293, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Search&DB=pubmed.

T. G. Fong, S. T. Bogardus, Jr., A. Daftary, E. Auerbach, H. Blumenfeld, S. Modur, L. Leo-Summers, J. Seibyl, and S. K. Inouye. Cerebral perfusion changes in older delirious patients using 99mTc HMPAO SPECT. J.Gerontol.A Biol.Sci.Med.Sci. 61 (12):1294-1299, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed.

S. K. Inouye and L. Ferrucci. Elucidating the pathophysiology of delirium and the interrelationship of delirium and dementia.

Z. Xie, Y. Dong, U. Maeda, R. Moir, S. K. Inouye, D. J. Culley, G. Crosby, and R. E. Tanzi. Isoflurane-induced apoptosis: a potential pathogenic link between delirium and dementia. J.Gerontol.A Biol.Sci.Med.Sci. 61 (12):1300-1306, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17234824&query_hl=51&itool=pubmed_docsum

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