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Catatonia: A disorder of motivation and movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Gregory Fricchione
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 [email protected]

Abstract

Georg Northoff employs a comparison with Parkinson's disease in an effort to tease apart the underlying pathophysiology of psychogenic catatonia. Northoff's extensive treatment of the subject is abetted by his own research as well as the research of others. Nevertheless, a number of points concerning basal ganglia/thalamocortical processing need to be raised, some adding support to his hypothesis and others detracting from it.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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