A 92-year-old woman presents for admission to a psychiatric hospital, 3 months after being diagnosed with catatonia. Her symptoms include stupor and waxy flexibility (i.e., resisting passive movement) ...

As you can see, symptoms of retardation and agitation may be mixed and matched, and are sometimes known to even vacillate between primarily retarded and primarily agitated catatonic states (DSM-5).

With waxy flexibility, a person’s limbs respond like a warm candlestick being moved and positioned. Waxy flexibility is a relatively rare symptom typically seen in catatonia, a condition that disrupts ...

Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm, and it stays in that ...

Down syndrome, due to an extra chromosome 21, occurs in 250,000 children and adults in the United States, making it the country's most common chromosomal disorder. Inherited heart defects, thyroid ...

When clinical psychiatrist and University of Queensland researcher Dr Cathy Franklin saw her first patient with Catatonia and Acute Regression in Down Syndrome in 2009, she was shocked. The condition ...

Not all cases are so obvious, though. Like any condition, catatonia exists on a spectrum, and subtler symptoms may be missed at first. Today, let's examine Mark's case (name disguised) involving the ...