Demo Chapter – Other Causes of Catatonia

Other Causes (5)

Causes of catatonia outside of schizophrenia include:

• Depression.
• Mania.
• Epilepsy.
• Encephalitis.
• Brain lesions.
• Medications.
• Antipsychotics.
• Disulfiram.
• Benzodiazepine withdrawal.
• Lupus.
• Lyme disease.
• Wilson’s disease.

(5) Moore, D. P. & Jefferson, J. W. (2004). Catatonia. In handbook of medical psychiatry, 2nd ed. St. Louis, mo: mosby, pp. 292-293.