ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2023
Orbitofrontal sulcal patterns in catatonia.
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- Genetics of catatonia: a systematic review of case reports and a gene pathway analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Pooled it
- Frozen emotions, frozen bodies: a systematic review of limbic system alterations in catatonia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
- CATATOnia treatment with transcranial direct current electrostimulation: protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled bicentric superiority study (CATATOES).BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Morphological patterns and spatial probability maps of the inferior frontal sulcus in the human brain.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundCatatonia is a psychomotor syndrome frequently observed in disorders with neurodevelopmental impairments, including psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been repeatedly associated with catatonia. It presents with an important interindividual morphological variability, with three distinct H-shaped sulcal patterns, types I, II, and III, based on the continuity of the medial and lateral orbital sulci. Types II and III have been identified as neurodevelopmental risk factors for schizophrenia. The sulcal pattern of the OFC has never been investigated in catatonia despite the role of the OFC in the pathophysiology and the neurodevelopmental component of catatonia.
methodsIn this context, we performed a retrospective analysis of the OFC sulcal pattern in carefully selected homogeneous and matched subgroups of schizophrenia patients with catatonia (
resultsLogistic regression analyses revealed a group effect on OFC sulcal pattern in the left (
conclusionBecause the sulcal patterns are indirect markers of early brain development, our findings support a neurodevelopmental origin of catatonia and may shed light on the pathophysiology of this syndrome.
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