Aripiprazole for refractory catatonic schizophrenia – A case report
Background: Catatonia is a disorder of varying aetiology characterised by psychomotor disturbance, mutism, negativism, catalepsy, echo phenomenon. Schizophrenia accounts for 10-15% of cases. Atypical antipsychotics are used in treatment resistant cases, of which aripiprazole has a unique D2 partial...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Archives of Mental Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.amhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2589-9171;year=2015;volume=16;issue=1;spage=96;epage=97;aulast=Gorthi;type=0 |