an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.
Reaction of lack of motor activity or extremes of motor activity including negativism.
muscle rigidity or inflexibility. Seen in times of extreme fear or in some forms of psychosis.
extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement
a mental disorder that is characterized by insensitivity and rigidity of the muscles.
a state of excited or inhibited motor activity in the absence of a mood disorder or neurological disease. It includes a number of other terms: Waxy flexibility- the patient's limbs when moved feel like wax or lead pipe, and remain in the position in which they are left. Found rarely in (catatonic) schizophrenia and structural brain disease.
Immobility with muscular rigidity or inflexibility and at times excitability. See also schizophrenia.
one seems unaware of the environment. May seem rigid in posture for long periods of time and resists efforts to be moved.
DSMIV Marked motor abnormalities including catalepsy (waxy flexibility - rigid maintenance of a body position over an extended period of time); stupor; apparently purposeless agitation not influenced by external stimuli; apparent motiveless resistance to instructions or attempts to be moved; mutism; stereotyped movements; echolalia and echopraxia.