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	Catatonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is indicative of other conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse and/or overdose.
		Catatonic excitement is state of constant agitation and excitation.
		In the novel Intensity, by Dean Koontz, Ariel Delane falls into a catatonic state after being forced to watch the torture and murder of her six year old brother by Edgler Foreman Vess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catatonia (439 words)

	Catatonic disorders - Definition, Description, Causes and symptoms, Demographics, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catatonic disorders are a group of symptoms characterized by disturbances in motor (muscular movement) behavior that may have either a psychological or a physiological basis.
		Catatonic stupor is characterized by extremely slowed motor activity, often to the point of being motionless and appearing unaware of surroundings.
		Catatonic rigidity, in which the person assumes a rigid position and holds it against all efforts to move him or her.
	www.minddisorders.com /Br-Del/Catatonic-disorders.html (1979 words)

	Catatonia \| AHealthyMe.com
		Catatonic excitement, or excessive movement, is associated with violent behavior directed toward oneself or others.
		Catatonic stupor is marked by immobility and a behavior known as cerea flexibilitas (waxy flexibility) in which the individual can be made to assume bizarre (and sometimes painful) postures that they will maintain for extended periods of time.
		Catatonic excitement is characterized by hyperactivity and violence; the individual may harm him/herself or others.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/topic100586582 (837 words)

	NevinTaylor Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catatonic Negativism: An apparently motiveless resistance to all instructions.cr attempt to be moved.
		Catatonic rigidity: Maintenance of a rigid posture against all efforts to be moved.
		Catatonic stupor: Marked decrease in reactivity to the environment and reduction in spontaneous movements and activity, sometimes to the point of appearing to be unaware of one's surroundings.
	www.nevintaylor.com /Psychopathology/Behaviour.html (423 words)

	NLP, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Counselling in Chichester, West Sussex, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catatonic stupor (marked decrease in reactivity to the environment and/or reduction in spontaneous movements and activity) or mutism.
		Catatonic negativism (an apparent motiveless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be moved).
		I have encountered this behaviour with catatonics being nursed on general medical hospital wards, where their postures are changed every two hours, they are hand fed and watered and washed by the nurses.
	www.23nlpeople.com /schizophrenia_catatonic.html (973 words)

	Catatonic Schizophrenia: ICD Criteria for Catatonic Schizophrenia
		These catatonic phenomena may be combined with a dream-like (oneiroid) state with vivid scenic hallucinations.
		In uncommunicative patients with behavioural manifestations of catatonic disorder, the diagnosis of schizophrenia may have to be provisional until adequate evidence of the presence of other symptoms is obtained.
		A catatonic symptom or symptoms may also be provoked by brain disease, metabolic disturbances, or alcohol and drugs, and may also occur in mood disorders.
	counsellingresource.com /distress/schizophrenia/icd/catatonic.html (624 words)

	Psychology Glossary. Definitions to psychology terms written in English, not psychological jargon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catatonic Schizophrenia: People with this type of schizophrenia exhibit unusual motor behaviors, and act in bizarre ways.
		There are two type of behavioral classes that the catatonic schizophrenic will engage in; catatonic excitement and catatonic stupor.
		During catatonic excitement, the schizophrenic will act in bizarre, high-strung like behaviors such as pacing quickly, babbling, talking incoherently, etc., while during catatonic stupors, the person will assume one position and remain that way for long periods of time (sometimes for hours).
	www.alleydog.com /glossary/definition.cfm?term=Catatonic+Schizophrenia (155 words)

	His parents for the treatment of first-episode psychiatric illness brought Mr. AR, a 24-year-old carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The syndromal diagnosis made was one of catatonic excitement, secondary to an unspecified psychotic process.
		Interviews at this stage revealed that, during the phase of catatonic stupor, AR had been deliriously happy; so happy, indeed, that he was altogether immersed in his thoughts and without desire to move.
		AR presented with catatonic excitement that was sudden in onset.
	www.indegene.com /Psy/ClinRound/indPsyCase6.html (629 words)

	Catatonia in Psychiatric Classification: A Home of Its Own -- Taylor and Fink 160 (7): 1233 -- American Journal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		of catatonic excitement is unproven, and the presence of excitement
		hallmarks of malignant catatonia are acute onset of excitement,
		Hinsie LE: The catatonic syndrome in dementia praecox.
	ajp.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/160/7/1233 (4745 words)

	Schizophrenia 5
		Waxy flexibility is an extreme form of obedience in which the catatonic's arm or leg remains passively in the position in which it is placed.
		Patients with prolonged catatonic excitement may be extremely destructive and violent toward others.
		As with manic excitement, there is danger of personal injury or collapse due to exhaustion.
	www.theallengroup.com /members/Schizo_5.html (402 words)

	Jaana Suvisaari: Incidence and Risk Factors of Schizophrenia in Finland
		The catatonic type was characterized by catatonic symptoms, and the paranoid type by prominent delusions and hallucinations.
		Catatonic type is assigned whenever prominent catatonic symptoms are present regardless of other symptoms.
		Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behaviour, and catatonic symptoms were considered as positive symptoms, while anhedonia, avolition, poverty of speech and affective blunting were classified as negative symptoms.
	ethesis.helsinki.fi /julkaisut/laa/kansa/vk/suvisaari/introduction.html (17576 words)

	SCHIZOPHRENIA
		Catatonic schizophrenia is marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.
		Some patients go into an extreme form of withdrawal known as a catatonic stupor.
		Others go into a state of catatonic excitement where they become hyperactive and incoherent.
	www.geocities.com /austnet_suicide_depression/schizophrenia.htm (512 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		Symptoms may be classed as positive or negative, depending on whether they involve disturbances that are “added” to the personality or reflect the loss of capabilities from the personality.
		In so-called catatonic stupor, for example, there is an extreme lack of reactivity; in catatonic rigidity the person maintains a rigid posture; catatonic negativism is marked by resistance to instructions or attempts to be moved; catatonic excitement is characterized by apparently purposeless, uncontrollable, and excited movements; in catatonic posturing the person assumes inappropriate fixed positions.
		They include paranoid schizophrenia, where delusions or hallucinations are prominent; disorganized schizophrenia, whose hallmark is disorganized speech and behavior along with flat or inappropriate affect; catatonic schizophrenia; undifferentiated schizophrenia; and residual schizophrenia, wherein prominent positive symptoms are currently absent.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=221752 (1110 words)

	nmsnew
		Aronson, MJ and Thompson SV: Complications of acute catatonic excitement.
		A 20 year old foreign exchange student was admitted to Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with a diagnosis of "catatonic schizphrenia." After a total of 25mg over 24 hours of IM HALDOL "...he stoodmotionless on one leg with his other leg extended and his eyes staring fixedly.
		"...the picture of such a raving person (the catatonic) with his totally senseless and irresponsible vigor is doubtless one of the most impressive conditions in psychiatry.
	www.idiom.com /~drjohn/nmsnew.html (8222 words)

	Catatonia
		Catatonia is a severe psychiatric and medical condition, characterized by, in catatonic stupor[?], a general absence of motor activity, and, in catatonic excitement[?], violent, hyperactive behavior directed at oneself or others but with no visible purpose.
		Catatonia is associated with a number of other psychiatric and medical conditions, such as the life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome as well as drug abuse, depression, and schizophrenia.
		For the band of the same name, see Catatonia (band)
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Catatonia.html (86 words)

	Schizophrenia 3q01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When I began my career in 1954, just prior to the introduction of the neuroleptic drugs, I felt a sense of excitement about what seemed to be happening in the professions that were responsible for the treatment of schizophrenia.
		In the beginning of his experience as a resident psychiatrist at Brooklyn State Hospital in New York, he found after a while that he was able to enter into the delusional systems of patients who were dying of catatonic excitement.
		In those days, there were no methods of reducing the fear and the fever in that condition and patients expired.
	www.schizophrenia-help.com /Schizophrenia__3q01/schizophrenia__3q01.htm (1690 words)

	Symptoms of catatonic schizophrenia - SJMMC, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catatonic schizophrenia can cause peculiar behaviors such as:
		Allowing another person to move your arms and legs into different positions (waxy flexibility).
		Having episodes of being extremely active but with no purpose (catatonic excitement).
	www.sjmercyhealth.org /111227.cfm (115 words)

	Drs. Taylor and Fink Reply -- TAYLOR and FINK 161 (12): 2328 -- American Journal of Psychiatry
		continue the notion that catatonic excitement differs from severe
		original descriptions of catatonic excitement (1) are consistent
		with the view that the excitement in catatonia represents breakthrough
	ajp.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/161/12/2328 (262 words)

	DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Schizophrenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A type of schizophrenia in which, for at least one week, there is:
		A type of schizophrenia in which, for at least one week, at least one of the following occurs:
		Does not meet the criteria for Paranoid, Catatonic, or Disorganized Type.
	www2.psy.mq.edu.au /~tbates/236/schizophrenia/DSM_schizo_crit.html (218 words)

	Catatonia
		Catatonia is a very severe psychiatric and medical condition, characterized by, in catatonic stupor, a general absence of motor activity, and, in catatonic excitement, violent, hyperactive behavior directed at oneself or others but with no visible purpose.
		Catatonia is associated with a number of other psychiatric and medical conditions, such as the life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome as well as bipolar disorder (most commonly), drug use, depression, and schizophrenia.
		The cause of death has not been disclosed.
	www.mrsci.com /Mental-Illness/Catatonia.php (516 words)

	Lecture16
		DSM criteria require two of the following symptoms:
		a) catatonic stupor (remaining motionless for long periods of time)
		b) catatonic excitement (excessive and purposeless motor activity)
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/a/x/axp271/Lecture16.html (652 words)

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