Epileptic Seizures Superimposed on Catatonic Stupor

Epileptic seizures in patients with acute catatonic syndrome.

Acute catatonic syndrome is a condition that can be caused by a variety of metabolic, neurological, psychiatric, and toxic conditions, including neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Although ictal catatonia as a manifestation of non-convulsive status epilepticus has been described, reference to the occurrence of seizures in patients with acute catatonic syndrome is anecdotal. Twenty nine patients wi...

Catatonic stupor in elderly woman with hyperparathyroidism.

Catatonic Stupor and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

There are a number of causes for stupor and catatonic schizophrenia is one of the important ones (Gelenberg 1976). Neurological disorders (Plum 1972; Penn et al 1972), metabolic conditions including psychotomimetic agents such as mescaline and phencyclidine, ethyl alcohol and amphetamine (Gatewood et al 1975, Jaffe 1967), and pharmacological agents include aspirin, ACTH, and neuroleptics (Weinb...

Catatonic Stupor with a Temporal Lobe Focus

Catatonic states do not always signify a psychiatric illness and may be a manifestation of an tmderlying medical or neurological illness. To assume that a patient who presents with a catatonic disorder must have exclusively a psychiatric disorder can lead to errors in diagnosis and management. Obvious physical illnesses such as epilepsy are easy to recognize but many subtle one? give rise to di...

Internal Carotid Artery Thrombosis Presenting as Catatonic Stupor—case Report

Catatonic stupor is a condition characterized by generalised inhibition of motor activities where sensibilities are impaired and the individual has little or no appreciation of his surroundings. Fisher (1954) reported eight cases of carotid occlusion who presented initially as dementia. He concluded that the association of dementia and carotid occlusion in these cases may be entirely fortuitous...