Catatonic features noted in patients with post-partum mental illness

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-162

  Lai, Jiun Yang ^a   Huang, Tiao Lai ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Catatonia; Depression; Mania; Post partum; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE; HALOPERIDOL; LITHIUM; LORAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; CATATONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; REMISSION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TAIWAN;

ADULT; BENZODIAZEPINES; CATATONIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LORAZEPAM; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CATATONIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 1842786419     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2003.01210.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. O'Hara MW. Postpartum Depression: Causes and Consequences. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995.
2. Stowe ZN, Nemeroff CB. Women at risk for postpartum-onset major depression. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 1995; 173: 639-645.
3. Yalom ID, Lunde DT, Moos RH, Hamburg DA. Postpartum blues syndrome: a description and related variables. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1968; 18: 16-27.
4. Pitt B. Maternity blues. Br. J. Psychiatry 1973; 122: 431-433.
5. O'Hara MW, Neunaber DJ, Zekoski EM. Prospective study of postpartum depression: prevalence, course, and predictive factors. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1984; 93: 158-171.
6. O'Hara MW, Schlechte JA, Lewis DA et al. Controlled prospective study of postpartum mood disorders: psychological, environmental, and hormonal factors. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1991; 100: 63-73.
7. Kumar R., Robson KM. A prospective study of emotional disorders in childbearing women. Br. J. Psychiatry 1984; 144: 35-47.
8. Cox J, Murray D, Chapman G. A controlled study of the onset, duration, and prevalence of postnatal depression. Br. J. Psychiatry 1993; 163: 27-31.
9. Kendell RE, Chalmer JC, Platz C. Epidemiology of puerperal psychoses. Br. J. Psychiatry 1987; 150: 662-673.
10. Chen CH. Etiology of postpartum depression: a review. Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci. 1995; 11: 1-7.
11. Davidson J, Robertson E. A follow-up study of post-partum illness, 1946-78. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1985; 71: 451-457.
12. Hendrick V, Altshuler LL, Suri R. Hormonal changes in the postpartum and implications for postpartum depression. Psychosomatics 1998; 39: 93-99.
13. Dalton K. Prospective study into puerperal depression. Br. J. Psychiatry 1971; 118: 689-692.
14. Nonacs R, Cohen LS. Post psychiatric syndrome. In: Sadock BJ, Sadok VA, eds. Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th edn. Lippincott, William & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000; 1276-1283.
15. Hanson GD, Brown MJ. Waxy flexibility in a postpartum woman: a case report and review of the catatonic syndrome. Psychiatr. Q. 1973; 47: 95-103.
16. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1994.
17. Waston P, Elliott SA, Rugg AJ et al. Psychiatric disorder in pregnancy and the first postnatal year. Br. J. Psychiatry 1984; 144: 453-462.
18. O'Hara MW. Social support, life events, and depression during pregnancy and the puerperium. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1986; 43: 569-573.
19. Dean C, Kendell Re. The symptomatology of puerperal illness. Br. J. Psychiatry 1981; 139: 128-133.
20. Rosenwald GC, Stonehill MW. Early and late postpartum illness. Psychosom. Med. 1972; 34: 129-137.
21. Troutman BR, Cutrona CE. Nonpsychotic postpartum depression among adolescent mothers. J. Abnorm. Psychol 1990; 40: 472-476.
22. Gotlib IH, Whiffen VE, Mount JH. Prevalence rates and demographic characteristics associated with depression in pregnancy and the postpartum. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 1989; 57: 269-274.
23. Cox JL. Postnatal depression: a comparison of African and Scottish women. Soc. Psychiatry 1983; 18: 25-28.
24. Cooper P, Campbell E, Day A et al. Non-psychotic psychiatric disorder after childbirth: a prospective study of prevalence, incidence, course and nature. Br. J. Psychiatry 1988; 152: 799-806.
25. Whiffen VE. Is postpartum depression a distinct diagnosis? Clin. Psychol. Rev. 1992; 12: 485-508.
26. Jennings KD, Ross S, Popper S et al. Thoughts of harming infants in depressed and nondepressed mothers. J. Affect. Disord. 1999; 54: 21-28.
27. O'Hara MW, Rehm LP, Campbell SB. Postpartum depression: a role for social network and life stress variables. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 1983; 171: 336-341.
28. Whiffen VE, Gotlib IH. Infants of postpartum depressed mothers: temperament and cognitive status. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1989; 98: 274-279.
29. Phillips LHC, O'Hara MW. Prospective study of postpartum depression: 4 1/2-year follow-up of women and children. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1991; 100: 151-155.
30. Sadock BJ, Sakok VA. Delirium, dementia and amnestic and other cognitive disorders and mental disorders due to a general medical condition. In: Sadock BJ, Sadok VA (eds). Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, 9th edn. Lippincott, William & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2003; 323-329.
31. Lim J, Yagnik P, Schraeder P, Wheeler S. Ictal catatonia as a manifestation of nonconvulsive status epilepticus. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 1986; 49: 833-836.
32. Primavera A, Fonti A, Novello P, Roccatagliata G, Cocito L. Epileptic seizures in patients with catatonic syndrome. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 1994; 57: 1419-1422.
33. Louis ED, Pflaster NL. Catatonia mimicking nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Epilepsia 1995; 36: 943-945.
34. Salam SA, Kilzieh N. Lorazepam treatment of psychogenic catatonia: an update. J. Clin. Psychiatry 1988; 49 (Suppl.): 16-21.
35. Greenfield D, Conrad C, Kincare P et al. Treatment of catatonia with low-dose lorazepam. Am. J. Psychiatry 1987; 144: 1224-1225.
36. Walter-Ryan WG. Treatment for catatonic symptoms with muscular lorazepam. J. Clin. Psychopharmacol. 1985; 5: 123-124.
37. Ungvari GS, Leung CM, Wong MK, Lau J. Benzodiazepines in the treatment of catatonic syndrome. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1994; 89: 285-288.
38. Bush G, Fink M, Petrides G, Dowling F, Francis A. Catatonia. II. Treatment with lorazepam and electroconvulsive therapy. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1996; 93: 137-143.
39. Gelenberg AJ. The catatonic syndrome. Lancet 1976; 1: 1339-1341.
40. Morrison JR. Catatonia: prediction of outcome. Compr. Psychiatry 1974; 15: 317-324.
41. Morrison JR. Catatonia: retarded and excited types. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1973; 28: 39-41.
42. Abrams R, Taylor MA. Catatonia: a prospective clinical study. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1976; 33: 579-581.
43. Abrams R, Taylor MA. Catatonia: predictions of response to somatic treatments. Am. J. Psychiatry 1977; 134: 78-80.
44. Regestein CR, Alpert JS, Retch P. Sudden catatonic stupor with diastrous outcome. JAMA 1977; 238: 618-620.