TREATMENT OF CATATONIC STUPOR WITH ORAL LORAZEPAM IN 14-YEAR-OLD PSYCHOTIC BOY

Authors
MARNEROS A JAGER A
Citation
A. Marneros et A. Jager, TREATMENT OF CATATONIC STUPOR WITH ORAL LORAZEPAM IN 14-YEAR-OLD PSYCHOTIC BOY, Pharmacopsychiatry, 26(6), 1993, pp. 259-260
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal title
Pharmacopsychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
01763679
Volume
26
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
259 - 260
Database
ISI
SICI code
0176-3679(1993)26:6<259:TOCSWO>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The case history of a 14-year-old psychotic boy with catatonic stupor who responded dramatically to 2 mg lorazepam is presented. He had been psychotic for over four weeks and had developed mutism, rigidity, neg ativism, and posturing (but without fever and without changes in blood and serum parameters) despite neuroleptic therapy, but recovered dram atically from stupor within 40 min. after oral administration of loraz epam.