Open AccessExpanding the Catatonia Tent
Author(s) -
Max Fink
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of ect/the journal of ect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1533-4112
pISSN - 1095-0680
DOI - 10.1097/yct.0000000000000729
Subject(s) - catatonia , mania , neuroleptic malignant syndrome , mood , autism , psychiatry , medicine , electroconvulsive therapy , psychology , bipolar disorder , pediatrics , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
Catatonia is a motor and mood disorder of behavior increasingly recognized in systemic medically ill. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, delirious mania, self injurious behaviors in autism, and limbic encephalitis are conditions in which ECT-responsive catatonia is increasingly recognized and effectively treated.