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Catatonic Behavior

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Catatonia

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Catatonic behavior is characterized by marked disturbances in psychomotor movements that occur within the context of a psychiatric or medical condition. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5), catatonic features are identified, and the catatonic specifier or residual category is appropriate, when there are at least three of the following:

  • Stupor (no psychomotor activity, not relating to environment)

  • Catalepsy (passive induction of a posture held against gravity)

  • Waxy flexibility (resistance to positioning by examiner)

  • Mutism (no, or very little, verbal response)

  • Negativism (opposition or no response to instructions or external stimuli)

  • Posturing (spontaneous and active maintenance of a posture against gravity)

  • Mannerism (peculiar, circumstantial caricature of normal actions)

  • Stereotypy (repetitive, abnormally frequent, non-goal-directed movements)

  • Agitation, not influenced by external stimuli

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  1. Psychology Department, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, USA

    Farzin Irani

  2. Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Solomon Kalkstein

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    John DeLuca

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Irani, F., Kalkstein, S. (2018). Catatonic Behavior. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1276

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