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Thinking Twice About Benzodiazepines: Treatment of Progressive Dementia in a Hospitalized Patient

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
Catatonia is an illness that overlaps with depression, dementia, and delirium, creating a diagnostic challenge. We present a case of catatonia in an older patient who initially presented with hypoactive delirium and who was later determined to have ...
Mallika Lal, Katie Drago, Rebecca Harrison   +2 more
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Successful bilateral electroconvulsive therapy for catatonia presenting with novel climbing behavior in an adolescent with CACNA1A pathogenic variant and autism spectrum disorder: a case report

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Pathogenic gene variants are relatively common in patients with neurodevelopment disorders comorbid with catatonia. In this report, we describe diagnosis and the treatment of catatonia in a 16-year-old boy with a CACNA1A pathogenic variant (which is ...
Lana Abdole, Hannah Louise Reynard, H. Yavuz Ince, Alexander Palffy, James Jackson, Neera Ghaziuddin   +5 more
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The Effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy on Specific Catatonia Symptoms and Predictors of Late Response.

INTRODUCTION Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is known to be effective in the treatment of catatonia, reaching response rates of about 80 to 100%. It is indicated in cases of treatment resistance to benzodiazepines and in life-threatening conditions ...
Meyer, Agnes, Breit, Sigrid, Schmitt, Wolfgang, Walther, Sebastian, Bracht, Tobias   +4 more
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Catatonia induced by nitrous oxide anesthesia in a healthy adolescent: A case report

PCN Reports
Background Catatonia can arise from various conditions, not only psychiatric but also non‐psychiatric etiologies. This diversity of underlying causes makes it challenging to identify the underlying etiology, which is crucial for appropriate management ...
Kenji S. Kobayashi, Takuto Ishida, Hitomi Tsunashima, Takero Terayama, Eiken Yoshida, Masafumi Mizuno   +5 more
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Zolpidem for Catatonia Refractory to Benzodiazepines in Resource-Limited Settings

BJPsych Open
Aims: Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by a paucity of movement and speech. Benzodiazepines are the mainstay of treatment for catatonia, but a subset of patients do not respond.
Holly Hodge, Shaikh Ullahansari, Blake Berry   +2 more
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Organic catatonia after apoplexy

, 2009
Catatonia is seen in various psychiatric disorders, but also rarely occurs in medical conditions with organic cerebral affection. We present a case of a previously mentally healthy male, who developed catatonia years after a stroke in the right ...
Jørgensen, Anders, Jørgensen, Martin Balslev   +1 more
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Catatonia: demographic, clinical and laboratory associations. [PDF]

BACKGROUND: Catatonia, a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome, has few studies of sufficient scale to clarify its epidemiology or pathophysiology. We aimed to characterise demographic associations, peripheral inflammatory markers and outcome of catatonia ...

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Catatonia and epilepsy: An underappreciated relationship [PDF]

Catatonia is currently conceived in the major diagnostic manuals as a syndrome with a range of possible psychiatric and general medical underlying conditions.
Luccarelli, James, Rogers, Jonathan P, Shorvon, Simon   +2 more
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ECT For Catatonia Of Non-Psychiatric Origins

, 2022
Learning Objectives Understand the history and recognize the syndrome of catatonia Be aware of the underlying conditions that can lead to catatonia Know the effective treatments for catatonia and the risks of delaying care Recognize ECT as an effective
Meyers, Carey, Mumma, Andrew
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Prevalence of catatonia in the sample of patients admitted to the psychiatric institute of Ain Shams University Hospital: a 2 year hospital based descriptive study

Middle East Current Psychiatry
Background Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome associated with a range of psychiatric and medical disorders. The difficulties in the clinical diagnosis, conceptualization and management of catatonia have been described as “The catatonic dilemma”. Despite
Dina Ahmed Ali Soliman, Abdel Nasser Mahmoud Omar, Maha Mohamed Sayed, Marwa Adel Gamal El Missiry, Rehab Mohamed Naguib, Mohamed Youssef Mohamed   +5 more
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