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Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”
In the beginning of the 1900s, the prevalence of catatonia in inpatient samples was reported to be between 19.5% and 50%. From the mid-1900s, most clinicians thought that catatonia was disappearing. Advances in medical sciences, particularly in the field of neurology, may have reduced the incidence...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303935 http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v13.i5.131 |
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author | Ungvari, Gabor S Caroff, Stanley N Csihi, Levente Gazdag, Gábor |
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description | In the beginning of the 1900s, the prevalence of catatonia in inpatient samples was reported to be between 19.5% and 50%. From the mid-1900s, most clinicians thought that catatonia was disappearing. Advances in medical sciences, particularly in the field of neurology, may have reduced the incidence of neurological diseases that present with catatonic features or mitigated their severity. More active pharmacological and psychosocial treatment methods may have either eliminated or moderated catatonic phenomena. Moreover, the relatively narrow descriptive features in modern classifications compared with classical texts and ascribing catatonic signs and symptoms to antipsychotic-induced motor symptoms may have contributed to an apparent decline in the incidence of catatonia. The application of catatonia rating scales introduced in the 1990s revealed significantly more symptoms than routine clinical interviews, and within a few years, the notion of the disappearance of catatonia gave way to its un-expected resurgence. Several systematic investigations have found that, on average, 10% of acute psychotic patients present with catatonic features. In this editorial, the changes in the incidence of catatonia and the possible underlying causes are reviewed. |
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spelling | pubmed-102513652023-06-10 Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” Ungvari, Gabor S Caroff, Stanley N Csihi, Levente Gazdag, Gábor World J Psychiatry Editorial In the beginning of the 1900s, the prevalence of catatonia in inpatient samples was reported to be between 19.5% and 50%. From the mid-1900s, most clinicians thought that catatonia was disappearing. Advances in medical sciences, particularly in the field of neurology, may have reduced the incidence of neurological diseases that present with catatonic features or mitigated their severity. More active pharmacological and psychosocial treatment methods may have either eliminated or moderated catatonic phenomena. Moreover, the relatively narrow descriptive features in modern classifications compared with classical texts and ascribing catatonic signs and symptoms to antipsychotic-induced motor symptoms may have contributed to an apparent decline in the incidence of catatonia. The application of catatonia rating scales introduced in the 1990s revealed significantly more symptoms than routine clinical interviews, and within a few years, the notion of the disappearance of catatonia gave way to its un-expected resurgence. Several systematic investigations have found that, on average, 10% of acute psychotic patients present with catatonic features. In this editorial, the changes in the incidence of catatonia and the possible underlying causes are reviewed. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10251365/ /pubmed/37303935 http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v13.i5.131 Text en ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Ungvari, Gabor S Caroff, Stanley N Csihi, Levente Gazdag, Gábor Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title | Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title_full | Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title_fullStr | Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title_full_unstemmed | Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title_short | Catatonia: “Fluctuat nec mergitur” |
title_sort | catatonia: “fluctuat nec mergitur” |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303935 http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v13.i5.131 |
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