Open AccessCatatonia in dementia managed with electroconvulsive therapy: A case report and review of the evidence
Author(s) -
Sandeep Grover,
C Pradeep,
Balaji Srinivas,
Parampreet Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of geriatric mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-3322
pISSN - 2348-9995
DOI - 10.4103/2348-9995.221897
Subject(s) - catatonia , electroconvulsive therapy , lorazepam , dementia , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , dementia with lewy bodies , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , disease
There is limited literature on catatonia as a presenting manifestation of dementia. Further, whenever catatonia occurs in patients with dementia, it often responds to lorazepam. There is limited literature on use of electroconvulsive therapy for management of catatonia among patients with dementia. In this report, we present a case of catatonia occurring during dementia of Lewy body which did not respond to lorazepam but responded to use of electroconvulsive therapy