• Immobility and mutism are considered the most common symptoms of catatonia, affecting up to 90% of people with the condition. (psychcentral.com)
  • From what we know about catatonic depression, she exhibited catalepsy, mutism, and stupor, which would have probably earned her a diagnosis of catatonia had she seen a psychiatrist. (painreliefhq.com)
  • George Eliot Silas Marner In William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the kindly Friar Laurence (in the course of a botched attempt to help the lovers) provides Juliet with a catalepsy-inducing potion so effective that Romeo tragically imagines his beloved's deathlike trance to be actual death and poisons himself in despair just before she awakens from her stupor-leading her to kill herself with his dagger upon discovering his suicide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Catalepsy is a more severe type of posturing where the posturing occurs passively, not on purpose. (psychcentral.com)
  • Posturing - In this condition, individuals will be actively holding a posture against gravity. (vedantu.com)
  • Teresa endured intermittent attacks of catalepsy from then on. (wikipedia.org)
  • His twin-sister Madeline, who always lived to herself in the house, suffers from a mysterious disease that is characterized by apathy, a gradual wasting away and attacks of catalepsy. (baltimorepostexaminer.com)
  • Catalepsy (from Ancient Greek katálēpsis, κατάληψις, "seizing, grasping") is a nervous condition characterized by muscular rigidity and fixity of posture regardless of external stimuli, as well as decreased sensitivity to pain. (wikipedia.org)
  • a condition, often associated with epilepsy and schizophrenia, in which the body becomes numb and the limbs rigid, and the victim loses consciousness or fails to respond to external stimuli. (wordsmyth.net)
  • This rare condition is usually a symptom of a neurologic or mental disorders, such as epilepsy, a brain tumor, or schizophrenia. (funtrivia.com)
  • The neurology team's impression of Mr A's condition was highly suspicious for catatonia with a low suspicion for a primary neurologic pathology. (psychiatrist.com)
  • The initial psychiatric impression was unspecified catatonia, given the patient's treatment response and overt signs of negativism and catalepsy. (psychiatrist.com)
  • [ 1 ] There are 3 types: (1) catatonia associated with another mental disorder (catatonia specifier), (2) catatonic disorder due to another medical condition, and (3) unspecified catatonia. (medscape.com)
  • 1 , 2 A movement disorder, 1 , 2 catatonia occurs with general medical conditions and psychiatric disorders ( Table 1 ). (mhaus.org)
  • Suggested or induced rigid catalepsy, of extended limbs or even the entire body, sometimes tested with heavy weights, has been a staple of stage hypnosis shows and even academic demonstrations of hypnotism since the late 18th century, as proof of extraordinary physical abilities possible in trance states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Catalepsy is an abnormal nervous condition in which the face, limbs, and body lose their voluntary motion and become rigid for what may be several hours. (funtrivia.com)
  • Whilst lying in a semi-recumbent condition after meditation, my whole body suddenly jerked into a condition of catalepsy and while riveted in this rigid state, a powerful force was thrust through me from head to foot. (67notout.com)
  • Local media reported Ms. Montaya had a condition called catalepsy - where a person experiences seizure, loss of consciousness, and the body becomes rigid. (wikisinfos.com)
  • It shows a phase in which an individual moves very little and does not respond to instructions and in extreme condition, one may demonstrate motor activity that is considered "excessive" and "peculiar," such as echolalia (mimicking sounds) or Echopraxia (mimicking movements) which is called as catatonic excitement. (vedantu.com)
  • Catalepsy is a symptom of certain nervous disorders or conditions such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Armand D'Angour suggests that reports (such as that recounted in Plato's Symposium) of Socrates, in about 429 BC, standing perfectly still for hours on end during the Athenian campaign against Potidaea while seemingly deep in thought, are 'too extreme to be considered wholly a matter of rational choice,' and that 'it is reasonable to suppose that it was the symptom of an underlying physiological or psychological condition', such as catalepsy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Catalepsy - This symptom includes adopting or performing unusual postures. (vedantu.com)
  • Mr A is a 20-year-old Black man with a history of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but no medical conditions, who presented to Cooper University Hospital (CUH) with altered mental status. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Catalepsy is the sudden loss of voluntary muscle control caused by severe fatigue, stress, or a strong emotion like laughter, anger or fear. (baptisthealth.com)
  • Unmada" is a broad psychopathological entity of Ayurveda that includes various psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. (ijoyppp.org)
  • Previous studies have established the similarity between grahonmadas and different psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. (ijoyppp.org)
  • This condition may be associated with psychiatric illnesses (e.g. (bvsalud.org)
  • He continued to show intermittent speech latency and residual signs of confusion regarding his condition. (psychiatrist.com)
  • I have seen Mrs. White in vision quite a number of times between 1852 and 1859, in every instance she was simply in a state of catalepsy . (nonegw.org)
  • In India the phenomena in question are regarded as cases of extension of faculty, and their explanation is sought, not in the event, but in the state of the mind witnessing it, since it is to be supposed that this will always, under given conditions, register a perception different from the accustomed. (ramakrishnavivekananda.info)
  • Catalepsy and loss of motor coordination, known side effects of cannabinoids, did not account for the antihyperalgesia produced by WIN55,212-2. (umn.edu)
  • Technical Paper 068: Effects of small doses of an Oripavine derivative on human subjects under both laboratory and field conditions. (parliament.uk)
  • In animals kept in SE, the treatment with RES induced deficits in motor function (catalepsy test, open field and oral movements), in novel object recognition (NOR) and plus-maze discriminative avoidance tasks. (unifesp.br)
  • The environmental stimulation facilitated the recovery of motor deficits assessed by the catalepsy test after the end of treatment. (unifesp.br)
  • In Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Count of Monte Cristo, the Abbé Faria has fits of catalepsy from time to time, before eventually dying from one. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now experts consider it a syndrome that can occur on its own, due to medication, or at the same time as several mental and physical health conditions. (psychcentral.com)
  • 0.001), in all the dilutions/dynamizations used, but with complex differences according to the experimental conditions and test performed. (thieme-connect.com)
  • Male mice were repeatedly treated with vehicle or 0.1 mg/kg of RES (s.c) and kept under two housing conditions: standard environment (SE) and EE. (unifesp.br)
  • It seems unlikely that NDMC would show efficacy as a stand-alone antipsychotic, however, its freedom from catalepsy and prolactin elevation, and its unique pharmacological profile (muscarinic agonism) may make it feasible to use this drug as an adjunctive treatment to existing antipsychotic regimens. (nih.gov)
  • Once Philip was getting ready to keep, the butler said Madeline suffered from catalepsy (a condition which can make persons appear dead). (astischool.com)
  • Even though it hasn't been studied in depth yet, it seems likely that its ability to bind to human receptors better than any other cannabinoid will make it especially useful for treating these and other conditions. (trianglehempwellness.com)
  • In this we have a foundation for a PSYCHIC THERAPEUTICS which we hope will soon put an end to the anarchic condition of medicine of the present day. (gutenberg.org)
  • In a rat model predictive of antipsychotic-like activity, WS-50030 and aripiprazole reduced conditioned avoidance responding by 42 and 55% at 10 mg/kg, respectively. (montclair.edu)
  • Waxy Flexibility - Under this condition, the individual will not change his/her arm position unless changed by someone, they will remain in the same position till it is moved again. (vedantu.com)