Catatonia: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Author/Contributor(s):	Fink, Max ; Taylor, Michael Alan
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	11/23/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Catatonia is a syndrome of motor dysregulation found in as many as 10% of acutely ill psychiatric in-patients. Treatments are well defined and catatonia has an excellent prognosis when they are used. Two leading neuropsychiatrists describe the features of catatonia; teach the reader how to identify and treat the syndrome successfully; and describe its neurobiology. Patient case histories from the authors' clinical practices, as well as from classical literature, illustrate the principles of diagnosing and treating patients.