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Catatonia

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by one or more of the following essential features: immobility, mutism, negativism (active or passive refusal to follow commands), mannerisms, stereotypies, posturing, grimacing, excitement, echolalia, echopraxia, muscular rigidity, and stupor; sometimes punctuated by sudden violent outbursts, panic, or hallucinations. This condition may be associated with psychiatric illnesses (e.g., SCHIZOPHRENIA; MOOD DISORDERS) or organic disorders ( NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; ENCEPHALITIS, etc.). ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.2711, 1944-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2711
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: catatonia; glioblastoma; and fit. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.8480, 1948-1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8480
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and chart relating to female patient aged 39 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: puerperal catatonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1948-1950
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)