The previous edition (the DSM-4), however, organized schizophrenia into five types: paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated, and residual schizophrenia. Some researchers still refer to ...

Catatonic schizophrenia: The most striking symptoms of this type are physical. People with catatonic schizophrenia are generally immobile and unresponsive to the world around them. They often ...

As catatonia can be a feature of several conditions, including schizophrenia, autism, and encephalitis, in addition to appearing on its own, statistics on the prevalence of catatonia are not ...

Schizophrenia on the other hand is a distinct ... repetitive actions and catatonia. Catatonia is remaining motionless for prolonged periods. The negative symptoms present with loss of normal ...

- a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement ...