Case of Katatoniac Stupor

A Case of Melancholic Stupor (Psychocoma)

Modafinil in endozepine stupor. A case report.

BACKGROUND Endozepine-4 stupor is a rare disorder. It presents with recurrent episodes of stupor and coma. Endozepine-4 levels are elevated during an attack with electroencephalogram showing fast activity during the ictal phase. There is no specific treatment and various drugs have been tried without long-term benefit. METHOD We used the vigilance promoting drug modafinil to prevent such atta...

Manic Stupor or Stupor Resulting from Treatment of Mania?

Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade shared a case in a letter to the editor in the July 2001 issue of Indian Journal of Psychiatry (Andrade, 2001) and he, as proposed by Dr. Fink (Fink, 2001) must be congratulated for bringing this treatable, life threatening condition to the notice of psychiatric fraternity and we must also thank Dr. Fink for giving guidelines to manage excited manic patients in the same...

Manic Stupor

Mr. AR, a 24-year-old carpenter, was. brought into treatment for first-episode psychiatric illness. According to reports, AR's alteredbehaviour began suddenly, 2 days earlier and comprised hostility towards all and sundry, prolonged spells of shouting and abusiveness, mindless violence, almost total absence of sleep, and refusal of food. There was no past, personal, or family history of signifi...

Treating Manic Stupor

The unusual feature of this case was the development of manic stupor. Although this condition is described in classical texts (e.g. Hamilton. 1974). in clinical practice most psychiatrists never see a case in their lifetime. It is seldom easy to make the diagnosis prospectively Usually, several differential diagnoses are entertained, including neuroleptic malignant syndrome, for such patients h...