Case 19-2021: A 54-Year-Old Man with Irritability, Confusion, and Odd Behaviors

A 54-year-old man was evaluated in the neuropsychology clinic because of irritability, confusion, and odd behaviors. Nine months earlier, he had been treated for cancer, after which chronic pain had developed. Six weeks before the current evaluation, he had been found unresponsive with medication bo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2021-06, Vol.384 (25), p.2438-2445
Hauptverfasser:	Kontos, Nicholas, Parsons, Michael W, Biffi, Alessandro, González, R. Gilberto
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anxiety Behavior Cancer therapies Case reports Chronic pain Clinical Practice Coronaviruses COVID-19 Critical Care Dementia Depression Health psychology Hematology Hospitalist Hospitals Information processing Medicine Memory Mens health Mental depression Metastasis Methadone Neurology Neuropsychology Neurosurgery Neurosurgery General Occupational therapy Oncology Pain Primary Care Psychiatry Psychiatry General Pulmonary Radiation therapy Tongue Treatments in Oncology
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Zusammenfassung:	A 54-year-old man was evaluated in the neuropsychology clinic because of irritability, confusion, and odd behaviors. Nine months earlier, he had been treated for cancer, after which chronic pain had developed. Six weeks before the current evaluation, he had been found unresponsive with medication bottles nearby. A diagnostic test was performed.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMcpc2100272