Population
128 individuals: 32 hospital admitted acute catatonic patients, 32 non-catatonic dyskinetic psychiatric…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May support CPK for distinguishing catatonia subtypes; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Increased serum CPK in catatonia may be related to the occurrence of dyskinetic movements, allowing distinction of parkinsonic and dyskinetic subtypes.
Northoff et al. (1996) studied this question.
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