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Treatment resistant catatonia secondary to clozapine withdrawal
Author(s) -
Nasr Yasmine,
Ganapathy Ramanathan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.404
Subject(s) - catatonia , clozapine , electroconvulsive therapy , paranoid schizophrenia , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , psychology , social withdrawal , medicine , psychosis
Catatonia has a wide range of psychiatric and organic causes. It has been less commonly associated with withdrawal of clozapine. The authors describe the case of a male with paranoid schizophrenia presenting with catatonia following abrupt cessation of clozapine, which showed little improvement with benzodiazepines or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).