Catatonia in the DSM--Shall We Move or Not?
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Catatonia in the DSM--shall we move or not?
The current issue ofSchizophreniaBulletin includes 2 opinion pieces on the nosology of catatonia and 1 on the treatment of catatonia. Fink and colleagues argue that the original concept of catatonia, introduced by Karl Kahlbaum in 1874, was inappropriately subsumed under dementia praecox and, subsequently, schizophrenia. They ask for a divorce of catatonia from schizophrenia and the recognition...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbp136