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BOSTON -- Dr. Patricia Rosebush and colleagues at the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre have found that catatonia is initially present in 7% to 9% of patients admitted to acute psychiatric care.
"Some of them ... you could hardly tell they were alive," said Dr. Rosebush, director of inpatient psychiatry at the centre.
Dr. Rosebush said she found catatonia "just wasn't being diagnosed." Few long-term prospective data were available, so she and her colleagues began to...