Cotard's syndrome in a 15‐year‐old girl

Cohen, David; Cottias, C.; Basquin, M.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1997.tb00391.x

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“…63 16/F Bipolar disorder NR 9 P owell et al . 64 13 Yeung et al 67 17/M Major depression Borderline intellectual retardation 16 Cohen et al 68 15/F Cotard's syndrome NR 17 Lee 35 18/M Mania NR 18 Cohen et al 24 15/F Bipolar-depressed NR 19 Cohen et al 24 14/F Bipolar-manic Sexual abuse 20 Zaw et al 69 14/M Severe depressive episode Autism 21…”

Section: Anxiety Disorders/dissociative Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…73 Other authors, however, distinguish NMS from malignant catatonia that is not caused by neuroleptics and is almost equivalent to fatal or lethal catatonia. 35,68 'Fatal' and 'lethal' are controversial concepts. Kish et al used the term 'fatal hyperthermia syndrome' because it is impossible to make a differential diagnosis between fatal catatonia and NMS with absolute certainty.…”

Section: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

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Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

Takaoka

Takata

2003

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Child and adolescent catatonia has been poorly investigated. A literature review was undertaken to clarify phenomenology, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment as well as ethical problems of catatonia in childhood and adolescence. Although there are no accepted standardized criteria for catatonia in childhood and adolescence, catatonic features described by child psychiatrists are similar to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn; DSM-IV) criteria for catatonia. With respect to etiology, the motor and behavioral symptoms that are part of catatonia bear some similarities with those seen in autism. Several case reports suggest an association between catatonia and general medical conditions. Certain drugs abused by youngsters as well as prescribed medicine can induce catatonia. Regarding catatonic cases originally diagnosed as schizophrenia, it is unclear whether all of these cases should be identified as schizophrenia or whether some of them are pervasive developmental disorders that develop psychic features in adolescence. Environmental changes preceding the onset of catatonia in patients with mood disorder play a possibly important role. Examples that suggest stress-induced catatonia, although rare, also exist. A few patients exhibit features of malignant catatonia, some without taking neuroleptics and others having taken them. Benzodiazepines and electroconvulsive therapy are considered to be effective treatments for catatonic youngsters.

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Section: Anxiety Disorders/dissociative Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

Takaoka

Takata

2003

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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“…There is insufficient data about the prevalence and incidence of the syndrome (14). CS is described as a cluster of symptoms as part of an underlying disorder, mostly depressive and bipolar (15)(16)(17)(18). Although our initial diagnosis was major depressive disorder with psychotic features, patients must be followed closely for bipolar disorder because of manic symptoms after treatment with escitalopram, and an increased risk of bipolar disorder during adolescence with CS (17).…”

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confidence: 99%

Antipsychotic Drugs Rechallenge in Multi-antipsychotic Drug Induced Atypical Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Case of Cotard’s Syndrome

Yılmaz¹,

Özbaran²,

Köse³

2017

jpr

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“…Especially with an underlying mood disorder, ECT was reported as a very useful technique in many case reports [4,5,7,10,13,[16][17][18][19]21,24,40,42,43,60,61]. In most reports, ECT was followed by a pharmacologic maintenance treatment, usually combination strategies (zuclopenthixol/oxcarbazepine [4], olanzapine/mirtazapine [42], trimipramine/perphenazine [21], mianserine/amisulpride [16], lithium/amisulpride [18], imipramine/haloperidol with addition of biperiden due to oculogyric crisis [60]), but monotherapy also has been reported (nomifensine [24], imipramine [5], isocarboxazide [4], lithium [18,43], risperidone [40], and olanzapine [19]). One report of spontaneous recovery after two grand mal seizures was also reported, illustrating the usefulness of the effect of seizures [62].…”

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confidence: 99%

Cotard’s syndrome: A review

Debruyne

Portzky²,

Eynde³

et al. 2009

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Cotard's syndrome is a rare disorder in which nihilistic delusions concerning one's own body are the central feature. It is not listed as a specific disorder in the DSM-IV, as it is typically viewed as a part of other underlying disorders. However, it remains important to recognize the syndrome because specific underlying mechanisms are present, and prognostic and therapeutic consequences have to be taken into account. This review presents an up-to-date overview of Cotard's syndrome, which was initially described more than a century ago.

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Cotard's syndrome in a 15‐year‐old girl

Abstract: We here describe a case of Cotard's syndrome in a 15-year-old girl who exhibited a short period of malignant catatonia, and the positive effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on her disorder. A psychopathological hypothesis is proposed.

Cited by 55 publications

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Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

Catatonia in childhood and adolescence

Antipsychotic Drugs Rechallenge in Multi-antipsychotic Drug Induced Atypical Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Case of Cotard’s Syndrome

Cotard’s syndrome: A review

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