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Catatonia in Ugandan children with nodding syndrome and effects of treatment with lorazepam: a pilot study

BACKGROUND: Nodding syndrome (NS) is a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome of an unknown etiology affecting children and adolescents mostly in Eastern Africa. Symptoms of NS and catatonia seem to overlap. We investigated the presence and types of catatonic symptoms in NS and their response to one or tw...

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Autores principales: Kakooza-Mwesige, Angelina, Dhossche, Dirk M., Idro, Richard, Akena, Dickens, Nalugya, Joyce, Opar, Benard T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4693437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26710961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1805-5

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