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TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

This case report describes the presence of grasp reflex and palmomental reflex as a state dependant phenomenon in a 23 year old patient with catatonic schizophrenia. A transitory disturbance of frontal lobe function is proposed as the probable mechanism. The need to study the release reflexes as an...

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Autores principales: Damodaran, Saji S., Sinha, Vinod K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743691
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description This case report describes the presence of grasp reflex and palmomental reflex as a state dependant phenomenon in a 23 year old patient with catatonic schizophrenia. A transitory disturbance of frontal lobe function is proposed as the probable mechanism. The need to study the release reflexes as an effort to delineate a neurological “sub group” of schizophrenia is suggested.
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spelling pubmed-29724832011-07-08 TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA Damodaran, Saji S. Sinha, Vinod K. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report This case report describes the presence of grasp reflex and palmomental reflex as a state dependant phenomenon in a 23 year old patient with catatonic schizophrenia. A transitory disturbance of frontal lobe function is proposed as the probable mechanism. The need to study the release reflexes as an effort to delineate a neurological “sub group” of schizophrenia is suggested. Medknow Publications 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC2972483/ /pubmed/21743691 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_full TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_fullStr TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_full_unstemmed TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_short TRANSIENT RELEASE REFLEXES IN CATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
title_sort transient release reflexes in catonic schizophrenia
topic Case Report
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