Catatonia in autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities: a state-of-the-art review. Moore, S., Amatya, D. N, Chu, M. M, & Besterman, A. D Npj Ment Health Res, 1(1):12, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, September, 2022.
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Individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) may be at increased risk for catatonia, which can be an especially challenging condition to diagnose and treat. There may be symptom overlap between catatonia and NDD-associated behaviors, such as stereotypies. The diagnosis of catatonia should perhaps be adjusted to address symptom overlap and to include extreme behaviors observed in patients with NDDs, such as severe self-injury. Risk factors for catatonia in individuals with NDDs may include trauma and certain genetic variants, such as those that disrupt SHANK3. Common etiologic features between neurodevelopmental disabilities and catatonia, such as excitatory/inhibitory imbalance and neuroimmune dysfunction, may partially account for comorbidity. New approaches leveraging genetic testing and neuroimmunologic evaluation may allow for more precise diagnoses and effective treatments.
@ARTICLE{Moore2022-vv,
  title     = "Catatonia in autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities: a
               state-of-the-art review",
  author    = "Moore, Shavon and Amatya, Debha N and Chu, Michael M and
               Besterman, Aaron D",
  abstract  = "Individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) may be
               at increased risk for catatonia, which can be an especially
               challenging condition to diagnose and treat. There may be
               symptom overlap between catatonia and NDD-associated behaviors,
               such as stereotypies. The diagnosis of catatonia should perhaps
               be adjusted to address symptom overlap and to include extreme
               behaviors observed in patients with NDDs, such as severe
               self-injury. Risk factors for catatonia in individuals with NDDs
               may include trauma and certain genetic variants, such as those
               that disrupt SHANK3. Common etiologic features between
               neurodevelopmental disabilities and catatonia, such as
               excitatory/inhibitory imbalance and neuroimmune dysfunction, may
               partially account for comorbidity. New approaches leveraging
               genetic testing and neuroimmunologic evaluation may allow for
               more precise diagnoses and effective treatments.",
  journal   = "Npj Ment Health Res",
  publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media LLC",
  volume    =  1,
  number    =  1,
  pages     = "12",
  month     =  sep,
  year      =  2022,
  copyright = "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0",
  language  = "en"
}

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