Title of article :
Multifactorial organic etiological agents causing catatonia: A learning experience
Author/Authors :
Halder, Ajay Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research Hospital - India , Biswas, Abhinanda Department of General Medicine - India
Pages :
3
From page :
301
To page :
303
Abstract :
Catatonia is a well-known neuropsychiatric clinical condition. The most common cause of catatonia is psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and depression. The important clinical features of catatonia are ambitendency, automatic obedience, catalepsy, echolalia, echopraxia, rigidity, posturing, etc., Several organic causes are also responsible for catatonic symptoms, which we don't keep in our mind in our day-to-day practice. Here, we described case series of catatonia that are related to organic etiological factor.
Keywords :
Catatonia , investigation , posturing , rigidity
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year :
2015
Record number :
2477458
Link To Document :
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