Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurological disorder characterized
by progressive chorea, cognitive impairment and emotional disturbance 1 . The disease …

In a prospective open trial conducted on a general psychiatric ward, the authors diagnosed
catatonic syndrome 15 times in 12 patients over a 1-year period. These 12 patients …

Psychiatric diagnoses are currently categorized on a syndromic basis. The syndrome of
catatonia, however, remains in a diagnostic limbo, acknowledged predominantly as a subtype of …

Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome that has been reported to occur in more than 10% of
patients with acute psychiatric illnesses. Two subtypes of the syndrome have been identified. …

Somatostatin receptor concentrations were measured in patients with Alzheimer's disease
and controls. In the frontal cortex (Brodmann areas 6, 9, and 10) and temporal cortex (…

Objective: Mitochondrial disorders are caused by gene mutations in mitochondrial or nuclear
DNA and affect energy-dependent organs such as the brain. Patients with psychiatric illness…

METHOD A patient presenting with psychotic symptoms was referred to our psychiatry service
from the emergency department. We diagnosed her with underlying Addison’s disease. …

Concentrations of putative neurotransmitter amino acids were measured in postmortem brains
from 10 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 10 controls. Glutamate, aspartate, taurine, γ…

Neuropeptide Y is a 36–amino acid peptide that is found in high concentrations in cerebral
cortex and is contained in cortical neurons. We measured concentrations of this peptide in …

In a prospective study of 20 patients with NMS, those who received dantrolene (2 patients)
or bromocriptine (2 patients) or both (4 patients) tended to have a more prolonged course of …