"My elderly mom was admitted to a nursing home a couple weeks ago, and now seems to be hallucinating on and off, especially at night," a patient asked recently. "She has never had any mental illness.

The term ‘excited delirium’ has been associated with a number of recent high-profile deaths in law enforcement custody. George Floyd, Tommy McGlothen, Eric Parsa, and for Ronald Greene, the Union ...

California has enacted a first-of-its-kind law banning the medical and legal use of “excited delirium,” a term often cited as a cause of death that many experts believe is racially motivated and used ...

In 2019, a 23-year-old, slightly built man with autism spectrum disorder went to an Aurora, Colorado convenience store to buy a drink. Elijah McClain was wearing a ski-type mask—an odd choice for ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed ...

If you are starting to notice cognitive changes in your parents or aging loved ones, you might want to educate yourself on the differences between delirium and dementia. As our county ages, a paradigm ...

DENVER — Colorado’s coroners appear ready to ditch use of a controversial term after one of the leading societies in the field of death investigations ditched use of the term itself. The term “excited ...

The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, ...

If you are starting to notice cognitive changes in your parents or aging loved ones, you might want to educate yourself on the differences between delirium and dementia. As our county ages, a paradigm ...