Open AccessTreatment of catatonia in Parkinson's disease with electroconvulsive therapy
Author(s) -
Vinutha Ramesh,
Ashish Sharma,
V. K. Sharma,
Aditya Somani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of indian academy of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1998-3549
pISSN - 0972-2327
DOI - 10.4103/aian.aian_308_18
Subject(s) - catatonia , electroconvulsive therapy , psychosis , medicine , depression (economics) , psychiatry , parkinson's disease , disease , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , economics , macroeconomics
Parkinson's disease (PD) is known to have associated nonmotor manifestations including psychiatric symptoms such as depression and psychosis. Catatonia has been reported extremely rarely in patients of PD. The case described here is a rare example of catatonia in a patient with PD with psychosis. Treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) brought improvement in symptoms of both PD and catatonia. ECT appears to be an effective treatment option in patients of PD, especially with psychiatric manifestations.