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Catatonia

Known as: catatonic, Catatonias, Catatonia [Disease/Finding] 
A neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by one or more of the following essential features: immobility, mutism, negativism (active or passive… 
National Institutes of Health

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CatalepsyCatatonic reactionComatoseImmobility Response, Tonic

Narrower (3)

Catatonia, MalignantCatatonia, OrganicPresenile dementia, Kraepelin type

Broader (4)

Mental disordersSchizophrenic reaction NOSSymptomspsychomotor symptom

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1983
1983
Carbamazepine and lithium carbonate in the treatment of refractory affective disorders.
To the Editor.— Several reports in the Japanese and American literatures show carbamazepine to be effective in relieving… 
Review
1975
Review
1975
Heterogeneity of schizophrenia.
One of the difficulties in defining schizophrenia is the possibility of its heterogeneity. Schizophrenia may be divided into… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
Spikes-wave from stimulation of the reticular core.
Lesions in the rostral midbrain have been found in various species to produce a syndrome characterized by depressed consciousness… 
1961
1961
THE CHAIN OF CHRONICITY
The goal of the study was to learn something of the process by which a newly-admitted patient becomes chronic. Interviews were… 
1960
1960
Basal tegmental self-stimulation after septal ablation in rats.
Olds8showed that stimulation of one of many areas of the brain could be used as a "reward" to maintain bar pressing and other… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
A prisoner of war syndrome: apathy as a reaction to severe stress.
We have pointed out that one defensive adjustment of POW's to stress is withdrawal. If the stresses are not too severe the person… 
1955
1955
Physiological concomitants of the phasic disturbances seen in periodic catatonia.
1. A longitudinal clinico-physiological study in the kinetic tradition has been made on 3 cases of periodic catatonia over a 2… 
1953
1953
TUMOURS OF THE GLOMUS JUGULARE
Although many tumours of the glomus jugulare have now been reported, attention has been mainly directed to the symptoms and signs… 
1942
1942
The incidence of psychoses and other mental abnormalities in the families of recovered and deteriorated schizophrenic patients
SummaryA comparison of the familial abnormalities in two comparable groups of 50 recovered and 50 deteriorated schizophrenic… 
1937
1937
Cranial Dysplasias of Pituitary Origin1
Part I OUR interest in the proportions and architectural structure of the human skull, as seen in cranial skiagrams, dates from…