Museo Federico II Stupor Mundi. Palazzo Ghislieri.

Universita ’ Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico Ii

University of Naples Federico Ii School of Medicine

The distinction between Meaningful (MFG) and Meaningless (MLG) gestures is relevant both to clinical classification frameworks and for comprehension of gesture processing within cognitive models. The specific aim of this review is to verify whether recent functional imaging studies support the view that different neural structures are involved in processing different kinds of gestures, with spe...

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...

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...