Catatonic Stupor with a Temporal Lobe Focus
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چکیده
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 diagnostic dilemma. This patient admitted to a psychiatric service with a catatonic state serves to illustrate the complex relationship between the neurological and psychiatric considerations in the differential diagnosis of the catatonic syndrome.
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