Rajiv Tandon, Stephan Heckers, Juan Bustillo, Deanna M Barch, Wolfgang Gaebel, Raquel E Gur, Dolores Malaspina, Michael J Owen, Susan Schultz, Ming Tsuang, Jim van Os, William Carpenter
Although catatonia has historically been associated with schizophrenia and is listed as a subtype of the disorder, it can occur in patients with a primary mood disorder and in association with neurological diseases and other general medical conditions. Consequently, catatonia secondary to a general medical condition was included as a new condition and catatonia was added as an episode specifier of major mood disorders in DSM-IV. Different sets of criteria are utilized to diagnose catatonia in schizophrenia and primary mood disorders versus neurological/medical conditions in DSM-IV, however, and catatonia is a codable subtype of schizophrenia but a specifier for major mood disorders without coding...
October 2013: Schizophrenia Research