Catatonic symptoms can happen in schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. Benzodiazepines work quickly to reduce catatonic symptoms, but they can be addictive. Electroconvulsive therapy is ...

A 92-year-old woman presents for admission to a psychiatric hospital, 3 months after being diagnosed with catatonia. Her symptoms include stupor and waxy flexibility (i.e., resisting passive movement) ...

Not all cases are so obvious, though. Like any condition, catatonia exists on a spectrum, and subtler symptoms may be missed at first. Today, let's examine Mark's case (name disguised) involving the ...

New research suggests the most effective treatments for catatonia in people with Down syndrome. Only recently has catatonia, a behavioral condition marked by new onset immobility, mutism, withdrawal ...

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 ...

A new systematic review and case series finds that electroconvulsive therapy significantly reduces catatonic symptoms in ...

Down syndrome, due to an extra chromosome 21, occurs in 250,000 children and adults in the United States, making it the country's most common chromosomal disorder. Inherited heart defects, thyroid ...

When clinical psychiatrist and University of Queensland researcher Dr Cathy Franklin saw her first patient with Catatonia and Acute Regression in Down Syndrome in 2009, she was shocked. The condition ...

Thus far, the Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) specifier lineup has included some unsavory characters. As if these haven't been difficult enough, there is also the possibility of MDD patients ...