Has the incidence, etiology, evaluation, and management of pediatric catatonia changed over time, especially following the ...

Jonathan Rogers receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and has previously been funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the ...

Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm, and it stays in that ...

Catatonia is an experience associated with a person taking a rigid or mute stance. Aspects of catatonia can also include unusual posturing, repetitive movements, repeating speech, and agitation. It is ...

NICE, France — Catatonic syndrome is a common child and adolescent psychotic disorder that responds well to benzodiazepines, with the addition of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) if there is ...

Despite all the criticism of DSM-5, the new classification of psychiatric diseases has one triumph to report: bringing back the diagnosis of catatonia as an almost independent disease entity. The new ...

Catatonia, a mysterious and often misunderstood condition, presents itself as a range of motor and behavioural abnormalities. As per a study led by the Banner University Medical Centre, Phoenix, USA, ...

When he was about 14-years-old, Sean Daley’s personality changed dramatically. He became aggressive, violent and withdrawn. Sean, who has autism spectrum disorder, had always had trouble with social ...