What can cause altered mental status?
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Acute changes in mental status are usually secondary to delirium, stupor, and coma, which are forms of acute brain dysfunction. ... Altered mental status is rarely caused by psychiatric illnesses such as depression or schizophrenia, and in elder patients, these should be diagnoses of exclusion.
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Acute changes in mental status are usually secondary to delirium, stupor, and coma, which are forms of acute brain dysfunction. ... Altered mental status is rarely caused by psychiatric illnesses such as depression or schizophrenia, and in elder patients, these should be diagnoses of exclusion.