Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm, and it stays in that ...

What if it happened on the job or while driving? Though Dr. H suspected Mark's desciption was catatonic features associated with MDD, he referred Mark for medical evaluation to rule-out other medical ...

This has been a great season for catatonia! First, the clunky DSM-5 made it an official independent diagnosis in May, detaching it from schizophrenia as a “subtype.” This means that clinicians can now ...