ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2019
The multiple faces of catatonia in autism spectrum disorders: descriptive clinical experience of 22 patients over 12 years.
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- Expanding the phenotype of NEDAMSS with a psychiatric perspective: analysis of a new case, and a systematic review of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- [Electroconvulsive therapy in people with intellectual disability].Der Nervenarzt · 2025Pooled it
- SYNGAP-1 Mutation And Catatonia: A Case Series and Systematic Review.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- Evidence-based consensus guidelines for the management of catatonia: Recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Guideline
- Catatonia in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Pooled it
- Anxiety in Children with Selective Mutism: A Meta-analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Pooled it
- Neuropsychiatric decompensation in adolescents and adults with Phelan-McDermid syndrome: a systematic review of the literature.Molecular autism · 2019Pooled it
- Prevalence, Phenotypic Correlates and Predictive Factors of Catatonia in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2026Article
- Modified electroconvulsive therapy for treatment-resistant self-injurious behavior in autism spectrum disorder with severe intellectual disability: a case report.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Electroconvulsive therapy in autism spectrum disorders: an update to the literature.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2025Review
- The effectiveness of the lorazepam challenge test in pediatric catatonia: A multisite retrospective cohort study.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities in the diagnosis and treatment of early-onset psychosis: a case series from the youth affective disorders clinic in Stockholm, Sweden.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Case report: Diagnostic challenges in an adolescent case of autistic catatonia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Recurrent catatonia in a patient with Schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder.Industrial psychiatry journal · 2023Article
- Another Option for Aggression and Self-Injury, Alternative Benzodiazepines for Catatonia in Profound Autism.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- The mediating effect of mood spectrum on the relationship between autistic traits and catatonia spectrum.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Catatonia in autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities: a state-of-the-art review.Npj mental health research · 2022Review
- Drug development for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Progress, challenges, and future directions.European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Review
- Catatonia as a presentation of autism in a child: a case report.AIMS neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
A retrospective review was conducted from the inpatient and outpatient records of twenty-two autistic youth presenting to a neurobehavioral service over a twelve-year period for combined psychiatric and behavioral pathology who also met DSM5 criteria for catatonia. Six autistic girls and 16 autistic boys ranging from ages eight to 26 years old were identified, and their variegated symptoms evaluated. Stereotypy, posturing, negativism, mutism and stupor were the most common catatonic symptoms, each present in more than half of the study patients. One patient had abnormal vital signs indicative of malignant catatonia. Twenty patients had concomitant repetitive self-injurious behaviors that had led to significant tissue injury and were refractory to psychotropic and behavioral interventions. The sample was weighted towards patients with severe self-injurious behavior, which often was the reason for admission. The many "faces" of catatonia in autism spectrum disorders are seen in this sample, and the novel recognition of repetitive self-injury as an under-recognized motor symptom of catatonia is highlighted. The preliminary findings in this study open many important future vistas for ongoing research regarding catatonia in ASDs.
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