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This review provides a critical overview of the conceptualizations, hypotheses, and clinical implications regarding the relationship between catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
This review provides a critical overview of the conceptualizations, hypotheses, and clinical implications regarding the relationship between catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
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May inform differential diagnosis in antipsychotic-treated patients; leaves open the nosological relationship between catatonia and NMS for prospective validation.
The relationship between catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) has, in the last three decades, generated considerable interest and controversies. This article provides a critical overview of our understanding of the relationship between the two enigmatic syndromes. It examines various conceptualizations of NMS, published data supporting a close relationship between the two syndromes, hypotheses proposed and controversies generated regarding how the two are related, and the clinical and pathophysiological implications of the relationship.
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Joseph Wy Lee (2015) conducted a review in Catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). This review provides a critical overview of the conceptualizations, hypotheses, and clinical implications regarding the relationship between catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
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