Talk:Catatonia

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I just removed small amount of vandalism, it may be pertinent to keep an eye on this page:

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Firstly, the link to Percy Wetmore leads to 'The Green Mile' page. Secondly, John Coffey leads to a baseball player of the same name. I think that after these problems are corrected I'd advise adding a section for old barbaric forms of treatment for catatonia, such as the infamous ice-water dunking idea and others. Just my thoughts, Mr. Tachyon.

This is not my field at all, but I thought it might interesting to mention that Richard Bandler of NLP fame claims to have helped many people in catatonic states. --Jens Schriver 14:27, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)

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Borrowed information and merger proposal

Catatonia, Catatonic stupor, and Catatonic excitement borrow heavily from Catatonia - Health A to Z. These three articles definitely do not need to remain separate. Catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement can be expanded and not plagiarized to become sections of Catatonia.

Merge. Catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement clearly belong on this page, as they are both directly related to this article. Also, if all three pages were merged, I think that the article would no longer be a stub. I'm going to go ahead and merge the pages.
Fuzzform 17:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I've merged the three pages, although the article now looks a bit sloppy. I wonder if it still qualifies as a stub? I'll do some more research and try to bulk up the article a bit, so I can remove the stub tag. As for the plagiarism, I've tried to reword as heavily as possible.
Fuzzform 18:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


Katatonic was an trance club in Nashville, Tennessee known for excessive drug use which was located at the corner of 12'th and Porter. It was shut down after being pressured by the city of Nashville, citing the crackhouse statuate.

== correct information == If you're going to claim to be a "reference" guide, which is supposed to be fact-based, then I suggest you get the facts correct.

1.Katatonic was an after-hours dance club. 2.Katatonic was not "shut down" as you state by pressure of the city or anyone else. 3.Being known for drug use is not a fact. It is hearsay or opinion. 4.Katatonic closed it's doors after the agreement of all partners involved, not to renew the building's lease.

Maybe you want a different article about the "Katatonic (dance club)" or something like that. This is the psychiatric condition, called "catatonia". Fuzzform 01:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Treatment dosage

This part seems a little odd to me, suggesting a typo: "Benzodiazepines are the first line of treatment and high doses are often required. A test dose of 1-2 mg intramuscular lorazepam will often result in marked improvement within half an hour." I'm not a doctor, but I know 2 mg is not very much. --Snaxe920 16:39, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Article with Extensive Clinical Information on Catatonia

If anyone feels like bulking up the article, I found a fantastic source of medical information on catatonia at eMedicine.

Here's a link: http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic708.htm -- 03:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Is geggenhalten a word?

In the first paragraph i read the following:

They may show specific types of movement known as "waxy flexibility" in which they maintain positions after being placed in them by someone else or geggenhalten, in which they resist movement in proportion to the force applied by the examiner.

There is a german word "gegenhalten" (holding against) but I'm not sure what is meant in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jemocri (talkcontribs) 06:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

Links

I deleted links to a private hypnotherapist's web page. I don't think the links are appropriate, although they do discuss catatonia. Let me know if I'm wrong on this one.

GB77 18:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

derren brown

Derren Brown claims to have put people into a catatonic state in at least two instances ("zombie" and "trick or treat - marrakesch"). if that is true, should it be mentioned? isn't that harmful? i know they have to sign contracts and stuff, but you can't really put someone into what is described in this article and get away with it, can you?--ExplicitImplicity 23:33, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

A catatonic state is not one associated with hypnotism nor is it a coma. I doubt very much whether the catatonic state he claims has anything to do with the medical term.cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 23:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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