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Catatonia, neuroleptics and brain damage – a case report
1 Old Age Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham,
UK
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract Catatonia is a syndrome that encompasses multiple motor signs. It can be the only presenting clinical feature in a patient with underlying multiple neuropsychiatric syndromes. The authors present a case of amisulpiride-induced catatonia, further evaluation suggested neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and showed the occurrence of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and underlying brain pathology with marked frontoparietal atrophy and periventricular white matter hyperintensities. The pathological substrate of catatonia and its complex association with neuropsychiatric syndromes are discussed. Key Words: catatonia, cortical atrophy, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, temporal lobe epilepsy
First published on June 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/0269881108091257 |
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