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- Title
TREATMENT-RESISTANT CATATONIA - A CASE REPORT.
- Authors
Baldinger-Melich, Pia; Fugger, Gernot; Kraus, Christoph; Lanzenberger, Rupert; Popp, Wolfgang; Kasper, Siegfried; Frey, Richard
- Abstract
This case report describes the clinical records of a 42 years old patient suffering from catatonic schizophrenia who was treated for approximately five months at a psychiatric intermediate care unit and subsequently for another twelve months in a specialized geriatric center. Though state-of-the-art pharmacological (antipsychotics, benzodiazepines) and non-pharmacological (electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial direct-current stimulation) treatments for catatonia were offered to the subject, no significant signs for an improvement of catatonic symptoms could be recorded using Bush-Francis-Catatonia-Rating-Scale. The case report discusses options regarding treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders. In other medical disciplines, chronic diseases often demand a palliative care setting. This might also be the case in psychiatry; however, there is a lack of methodologically sound studies on palliative care for patients with severe persistent mental illness.
- Subjects
CATATONIA; PHARMACOLOGY; PALLIATIVE treatment; PEOPLE with mental illness; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p24
- ISSN
1724-4935
- Publication type
Case Study