catatonic stupor

catatonic stupor
Synonyms and related words:
abstraction, abulia, alienation, amnesia, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, catalepsy, cataplexy, compulsion, daydreaming, daze, dejection, depression, detachment, dream state, elation, emotionalism, euphoria, folie du doute, fugue, fugue state, hypnotic trance, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, obsession, pathological indecisiveness, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, reverie, sleepwalking, somnambulism, stupor, tic, trance, twitching, unresponsiveness, withdrawal

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  • catatonic stupor — the extreme decrease in reactivity to the environment and in spontaneous activity characteristic of catatonic schizophrenia …   Medical dictionary

  • stupor — Synonyms and related words: KO, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, amnesia, anesthesia, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blackout, blah, blahs, boredom, catalepsy, cataplexy,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • catatonic — cat|a|ton|ic [ˌkætəˈtɔnık US ˈta: ] adj not able to move or talk because of an illness, shock etc catatonic stupor/trance …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • catatonic schizophrenia — catatonia cat a*ton ia n. [Gr. katatonos, stretching down, depressed, fr. kata down + to nos stretching, straining, tone (sound). Stedman.] (Psychiatry) an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • catatonic — adjective Date: 1904 1. of, relating to, being, resembling, or affected by schizophrenia characterized especially by a marked psychomotor disturbance that may involve stupor or mutism, negativism, rigidity, purposeless excitement, and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • catatonic — catatonia ► NOUN 1) abnormality of movement and behaviour arising from a disturbed mental state. 2) informal a state of immobility and stupor. DERIVATIVES catatonic adjective. ORIGIN from Greek tonos tone or tension …   English terms dictionary

  • stupor — A state of impaired consciousness in which the individual shows a marked diminution in reactivity to environmental stimuli and can be aroused only by continual stimulation. [L. fr. stupeo, to be stunned] benign s. a stuporous syndrome from which… …   Medical dictionary

  • catatonic schizophrenia — [DSM IV] a type of schizophrenia characterized by marked psychomotor disturbance, including some combination of motoric immobility (stupor, catalepsy), excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, mutism, echolalia, echopraxia, and peculiarities …   Medical dictionary

  • Кататонический ступор — (catatonic stupor) симптом, сопутствующий шизофрении, когда человек становится совершенно нечувствительным к окружающей среде, остается без движения и молчит на протяжении длительного периода времени …   Общая психология: глоссарий

  • Catatonia —    Catatonia is motor abnormalities in association with severe disorders of mood and thought. Catatonic excitement means an increase in spontaneous and purposeless movements; it is a feature of manic illness among other disorders. Catatonic… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

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