title: Electroconvulsive therapy resolves cortical inhibition and manneristic omissions in a chronic catatonic patient.
abstract: We investigated a patient with severe catatonic schizophrenia (manneristic catatonia according to Karl Leonhard) treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after pharmacological approaches did not result in any clinical improvement. Before and after nine ECT sessions a double-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigm was used to measure intracortical inhibition (ICI) which has been shown to be reduced in a significant proportion of patients with schizophrenia. Although the patient showed no remission regarding some psychomotor aspects after ECT, we found an increase in ICI and a remarkable clinical improvement of catatonic omissions which might be due to changes in the GABAergic system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Fuechsleinstr. 15, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany. Dresler_T@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dresler
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Giani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reinsberger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scheuerpflug
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stöber
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fallgatter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002389:Catatonia / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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