Catatonia in Patients with Dementia Admitted to a Geriatric Psychiatry Ward

To determine the frequency and characteristics of catatonia in persons with dementia, all patients admitted to an old age psychiatry ward were screened for catatonia with the Bush-Francis Catatonia Screening Instrument (BFCSI) over a period of 6 months. Thirty-seven patients were admitted, and there...

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Main Authors: Puja Sharma, Ina Sawhney, Walter Jaimes-Albornoz, Jordi Serra-Mestres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_47_17