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Before Attributing Catatonia to Autism with Anxiety, All Other Causes should be Carefully Excluded, Especially in a Patient with Meningioma

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We recently read an interesting case report in your Journal about the complete disappearance of catatonia after a single intravenous lorazepam challenge test in a patient with autistic features and a small meningioma.1 We would like to congratulate the authors but also point out some weaknesses of the article. We have already seen several cases of organic catatonia,2 and we noticed the authors did not cite the latest evidence-based consensus guidelines for the treatment of catatonia.3 Therefore, we wonder if the patient diagnosed with a first episode of psychosis with autism features and anxiety-related catatonia had any changes in electroencephalography or lumbar puncture before treatment to rule out epilepsy4 or encephalitis, for example.

Source: Psychopharmacology Bulletin

DOI: 10.64719/pb.4528

Authors: João Gama Marques, Josef Finsterer

Institutions: University of Lisbon, Unidade Local de Saúde de São José, Hospital de São José, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa

Language: English

Topic: Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4407426853

FWCI: 0.62

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