Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:1454-1456
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Catatonialike symptomatology and withdrawal dyskinesias
MI Good
The authors describes a patient who presented catatonialike symptoms and
dyskinesias associated with glutethimide discontinuance and antihistamine
use. He hypothesizes that altered dopamine metabolism may produce some of
the unusual neuropsychiatric characteristics of glutethimide withdrawal.
Drug-withdrawal catatonia may be an additional entity in the differential
diagnosis of catatonialike states of organic etiology.
