BACKGROUND Ritualistic behaviors are common in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), while catatonic stupor occasionally occurs in psychotic or mood disorders. Schizoaffective disorder is a specific mental disorder involving both psychotic and affective symptoms. The syndrome usually represents a specific diagnosis, as in the case of the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseas...

Significant neurotoxicity including seizures, encephalopathy and coma may complicate the use of cyclosporin A (CyA). Two patients are described, receiving CyA, who presented with abnormal behaviour, stupor, focal motor activity and were shown to be in complex partial status epilepticus (CPSE). Abnormalities of behaviour and/or stupor in patients receiving CyA may be a manifestation of CPSE. Pat...

As it has been observed that some cases of anergic stupor and melancholia-make a rapid recovery after an attack of acute physical illness, e.cj.. erysipelas, Stoddart in his " Mind and its Disorders " recommends that an acute physical illness should be induced, and the illness that he selects for the purpose is hyperthyroidism. Two patients suffering from anergic stupor in the Central Asylum, Y...

In the article “Video NeuroImages: Idiopathic Recurring Stupor: An Unusual Clinical Condition Responding to …

Recurrent stupor in children is an uncommon clinical problem with a wide differential diagnosis; inherited metabolic disorders account for a vast majority. We report a 9-year-old girl with recurrent episodes of stupor. Initial episode was treated as viral encephalitis and the second episode was managed as non-convulsive status epilepticus. Hyperammonemia was detected in the last episode. Metabo...