During his third-year psychiatry clerkship as a medical student, Zach Rosenthal, MD, Ph.D., was part of a team providing care to a young man with schizophrenia and severe catatonia. For the first time ...

Catatonia is often dramatically portrayed as a condition that belongs in horror movies, presenting someone as completely motionless or immobile for shock value. But it’s more than being “unresponsive.

Catatonia is an experience associated with a person taking a rigid or mute stance. Aspects of catatonia can also include unusual posturing, repetitive movements, repeating speech, and agitation. It is ...

Jonathan Rogers receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and has previously been funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the ...