Successful treatment of refractory organic catatonic disorder with repetitive Transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kate, Mahesh Pundlik ^a,b   Raju, D ^a,b   Vishwanathan, Vibhin ^a,b   Khan, Fayaz R ^a,b   Nair, ^a,b   Thomas, Sanjeev V ^a,b  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Medical College Hospital Thiruvananthapuram   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CLOZAPINE; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; LORAZEPAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; APATHY; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DELUSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ORGANIC CATATONIC DISORDER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80055014241     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: 15457222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.23.3.jnpe2     Document Type: Letter

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