Objectives: To provide guidance for the management of mood disorders, based on scientific
evidence supplemented by expert clinical consensus and formulate recommendations to …

Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome associated with several psychiatric and medical
conditions. Psychomotor signs range from stupor to agitation, and include pathognomonic …

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With
Schizophrenia seeks to reduce these substantial psychosocial and public health …

Objective: To familiarize the reader with the role of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in
current psychiatric medicine. Method: We review clinical indications for ECT, patient …

Catatonia is a syndrome that has been associated with several mental illness disorders but
that has also presented as a result of other medical conditions. Schizophrenia and other …

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 …

Objective Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains underutilized because of fears of
cognitive and medical risks, including the risk of death. In this study, we aimed to assess the …

Objective: We evaluated the effectiveness of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in the
treatment of Bipolar Disorder (BD) in a large sample of bipolar patients with drug resistant …

Recent evidence favors the view of catatonia as an autonomous syndrome, frequently
associated with mood disorders, but also observed in neurological, neurodevelopmental …

BackgroundAnti-N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis is an autoimmune
condition caused by immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies directed against the NR1 subunit of …