Schizoprenia
Catatonic schizophrenia, rare severe mental disorder characterized by striking motor behaviour, typically involving either significant reductions in voluntary movement or hyperactivity and agitation. In some cases, the patient may remain in a state of almost complete immobility, often assuming statuesque positions.
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Diagnoses Schizophrenia (Out of aphpabetical order, but there is no entry for “Catatonic Schizophrenia.”)
USPatnts: 0.3-0.7%
WrldPatnts: 20 Mil
SexRatio: M1.5; F
AveOnset: Ages 16-30
Brain Area: insufficient dopamine to motivate; dopamine & glutamate; thinning of brain gyrus; being left handed
Symptoms: persecutory hallucinations (usually hearing), delusions (incorrect ideas), confused thinking; speaking in “word salad”
Progression & Effects: contact often lost with the outside world. 10% become violent = 4X general population
Causes: many genes and adverse childhood experiences; urban =2X; ½=drug use, including cannabis-2+X
Productive Medications: antipsychotics; social supports; 1/3 are “treatment resistant”, exercise, 3,000 new drugs in development
Productive Therapies: ½ improve over time, some with no relapses. Others, lifelong, frequent hospitalization, 5% suicides, 20 years shorter life
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Youtube Video: Catatonic Schizophrenia
Amazon or Library Book: Catonic Schizophrenia (Published, 2004)
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Support Group: info@sczacton.org; 800-493-2094
(Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Transient Fever Response After ECT in a Patient with Catatonic Schizophrenia: A Case Reportby Anıl Alp on April 1, 2024
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective and safe treatment method for many psychiatric disorders. In general medical practice, ECT may cause side effects as most other treatment methods do. Headache, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anterograde amnesia are common side effects of electroconvulsive therapy. Fever; in addition to general medical conditions such as infection, malignancy, connective tissue diseases, drug treatments, malignant hyperthermia, convulsions, it can also occur...
- Palliative psychiatry for a patient with treatment-refractory schizophrenia and severe chronic malignant catatonia: case reportby Junona Elgudin on March 21, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: This case permits discussion of palliative interventions in patients with SPMI such as treatment-refractory psychotic disorders who likely cannot achieve a quality of life that is acceptable to them. Here, it can be justified to prioritize relief of suffering and prevention of further burdensome interventions over treatment of the SPMI symptoms such as catatonia and even over keeping the patient alive.
- Case report: C1/2 rotational instability progressing to extreme subaxial hyperkyphosis in an adolescent with severe catatoniaby Samuel F Schaible on March 21, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social communication, repetitive behaviors, and can be accompanied by a spectrum of psychiatric symptoms, such as schizophrenia and catatonia. Rarely, these symptoms, if left untreated, can result in spinal deformities.
- Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy in Catatonia: Clinical Profiles From a Case Seriesby Joaquín Gil-Badenes on February 27, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Maintenance ECT proves to be a safe and well-tolerated strategy for preventing relapses in severe catatonic patients who have previously stabilized with acute ECT. Further research is needed to develop clinical guidelines that define optimal application strategies for mECT in catatonia.