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Individual on Death Row Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for Catatonia: A Case Report.
J ECT
November 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is underused, logistically challenging for those who are justice-involved, and laced with ethical problems for those on death row. Herein we describe a case of a man without history of long-standing psychiatric illness who, after more than 15 years on death row, was hospitalized for altered mental status. After medical stabilization, the altered mental status persisted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDelayed drug-induced catatonia in an adolescent girl-clinical implications: a case report.
J Med Case Rep
November 2024
Division of Child and adolescent psychiatry, Uppsala Academic Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Catatonia is a serious condition marked by psychiatric and motor issues, often linked with various mental illnesses, and may have a high mortality rate; its exact cause and classification remain debated among experts.
- A rare case involved a 17-year-old girl who developed catatonia after recreational drug use, with symptoms appearing a week later, and she had no prior mental health issues or substance abuse history.
- Treatment with lorazepam, memantine, and lithium successfully improved her condition, emphasizing the need for early recognition of psychomotor symptoms and suggesting that certain drugs may cause delayed onset catatonia, particularly in adolescents.
Acute Catatonia Following a Cerebellar Stroke: A Case Report.
Cureus
September 2024
Family Medicine, Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, Boardman, USA.
Catatonia can present with a wide spectrum of psychomotor symptoms and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of hospitalized patients with speech and motor difficulties. Catatonia is defined as the presence of three or more of the following: catalepsy, waxy flexibility, stupor, agitation, mutism, negativism, posturing, mannerisms, stereotypies, grimacing, echolalia, and echopraxia. In this case, a 72-year-old black woman was admitted with difficulty with speech and ambulation and found to have a cerebellar stroke on a brain MRI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase Report of Retarded Catatonia: Always Consider Catatonia as a Differential Diagnosis of Altered Mental Status.
Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed)
August 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Background: Catatonia is a rare neuropsychiatric condition; it is estimated that around 10% of patients with mood disorders present signs and symptoms of catatonia. A catatonic syndrome is characterised by mutism, negativism, rigidity, and stupor.
Case Report: We report the case of a 59-year-old patient with a medical history of bipolar disorder who was admitted to the internal medicine service due to a seizure episode.
Catatonia and epilepsy: An underappreciated relationship.
Epilepsy Behav
October 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
Catatonia is currently conceived in the major diagnostic manuals as a syndrome with a range of possible psychiatric and general medical underlying conditions. It features diverse clinical signs, spanning motor, verbal and behavioural domains and including stupor, catalepsy, mutism, echolalia, negativism and withdrawal. The existing literature suggests that seizure activity may underlie catatonia in approximately 2% of cases.
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