On catatonia again... - literature review
Introduction: In addition to the symptoms, the symptoms of catatonia have been classified as a subtype of schizophrenia (catatonic schizophrenia). Currently, however, catatonia is treated as a single psychopathological syndrome that can occur in the ...
Gracjan Rudzinski +6 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy in geriatric patients: A literature review and program report from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA [PDF]
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective therapeutic intervention in the elderly patients with major depression, especially those with psychosis, suicidality, catatonia, nutritional compromise, and resistance to medications.
Pandurangi, Ananda +2 more
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Catatonia in older adults: A systematic review
BACKGROUND Catatonia is a complex psychomotor syndrome that often goes unrecognized and untreated, even though its classification has evolved in recent years.
W. Jaimes-Albornoz +5 more
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Katatones Dilemma unter Kombinationsbehandlung mit Lithium und Risperidon [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: The case of a schizoaffective patient suffering from a malignant catatonic syndrome following combined lithium-risperidone therapy is explored. METHOD: A case report and relevant deliberations regarding pathophysiology of the catatonic dilemma
Böker, H +3 more
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Catatonia Psychopathology and Phenomenology in a Large Dataset
Background The external clinical manifestations (psychopathology) and internal subjective experience (phenomenology) of catatonia are of clinical importance but have received little attention.
Eleanor Dawkins +7 more
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Disorders of mental activity during catatonia, based on my observations, are very different from what many authors have seen with this disease. At the beginning of my study of catatonia, for a long time I could not understand why what I saw was so different from the descriptions of this disease in textbooks, I did not trust my observations for a long ...
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Catatonia in two women with Parkinson’s disease treated with electroconvulsive therapy
Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by a broad range of motor, behavioral and cognitive abnormalities. Catatonia and Parkinson’s disease (PD) may show partially overlapping symptomatology.
Camilla Elefante +6 more
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Catatonia in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A case study and literature review
Introduction There are extremely few reported cases of OCD causing catatonia and some of those cases are possibly associated with the somewhat contentious diagnosis of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus.
A. Suddath, A. Franks, H. Winston
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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, with Attention to Its Occurrence with Atypical Antipsychotic Medication: A Review [PDF]
The neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an idiopathic, life-threatening reaction to antipsychotic medication. NMS was traditionally attributed to potent dopamine antagonism of typical antipsychotics, but cases of NMS have now been reported for each ...
Guzofski, Sarah, M.D. (PGY2) +1 more
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The psychological and subjective experience of catatonia: a qualitative study
Catatonia is a severe psychomotor disorder that presents as abnormality of movement which may also be excessive or severely slowed. It often inhibits communication when protracted or severe.
Z. Zingela +4 more
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