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1293621

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
Many patients present with stupor or substupor without classical catatonic signs as described by Kahlbaum. The phenomenological literature is not clear as to whether stupor, when it presents alone, constitutes a separate syndrome or is a forme fruste of catatonia. All patients who presented with stupor, (a) partial or total mutism or (b) absent or decreased motor responses (n = 22), were compared with patients who also had classical catatonic signs such as negativism or waxy flexibility (n = 43) over a one-year period (1988), on sociodemographic and clinical variables. There were very few significant differences between the two groups (age, sex, diagnosis, duration of illness, number of ECTs required). The stupor group had a slight excess of patients with manic-depressive psychosis, depression and more frequently positive family histories of mental illness. The current study provides a tentative support to the hypothesis that stupor is a catatonic sign, and even when present alone can be considered to constitute a catatonic syndrome.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0254-4962
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
229-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Is stupor by itself a catatonic symptom?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article