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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Presenting as Leonhard's Speech-prompt Catatonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Karl Koehler  and
Ulrike Jakumeit
Karl Koehler
Affiliation:
University Neuropsychiatric Clinic, Homburg-Saar, West Germany
Ulrike Jakumeit
Affiliation:
University Neuropsychiatric Clinic, Homburg-Saar, West Germany
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Summary

A woman aged 20, first presenting with what appeared to be hysterical blindness as part of the syndrome of hysterical pseudo-dementia, soon showed the picture of speech-prompt catatonia, one of the subtypes of chronic schizophrenia described by Karl Leonhard. However, within a short time the neurological, EEG and laboratory findings indicated that the condition was one of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 1 , July 1976 , pp. 29 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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