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Table 1 Diagnostic criteria Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition

From: Acute catatonia on medical wards: a case series

Catatonia associated with another mental disorder, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; diagnosis criteria if the clinical picture is dominated by at least three of the following:

• stupor

• catalepsy

• waxy flexibility

• agitation

• mutism

• negativism

• posturing

• mannerisms

• stereotypy

• grimacing

• echolalia

• echopraxia