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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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Irani, F., Kalkstein, S. (2017). Catatonic Behavior. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1276-2
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