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The disease status of catatonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Irwin Savodnik
Irwin Savodnik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 isavodni@ucla.edusecond.author.email@university.ac.uk http://www.secondauthor.org
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Abstract

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Georg Northoff encounters a problem regarding the logical status of “catatonia.” Whereas Parkinson's disease (PD) is a disease on the basis of Virchowian criteria, catatonia is not. PD is associated with pathognomonic neurological lesions. Catatonia does not require any such association. The diagnosis is rendered using social criteria rather than neuropathological ones. Therefore, Northoff is not comparing two disease states at all.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 590 - 591
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press