Misorientation in Delirium: A Case Report in Psychiatry

Delirium is a neurocognitive disorder characterized by abnormal features in consciousness and thinking, which makes it difficult to rule out other differential diagnoses. Delirium is distressful for patient, their family and health care providers. Therefor better understanding of this disorder is an asset. In this case report we present a person with experience of disturbance in perception of horizontal and vertical dimensions and further we introduce this phenomenon as sign of delirium which we name it in this article as “misorientation”. In addition, this report discusses neuroimmunology and neuroanatomy associated with time and space orientation and their impairment. We propose hypothesis regarding disorientation.

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