Erin Allman‑Updyke
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first heard Sep 2026
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And there's also a kind of subset of catatonia called malignant catatonia and another condition that's life threatening called NMS or neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
That is very similar to catatonia, but caused by antipsychotic medications or other drugs.
And so similarly, you have this rigidity, you have this unresponsiveness, but you also see fever, tremors, muscle cramps, and it's usually a pretty sudden onset.
So malignant catatonia, as well as NMS and catatonia, regardless of the cause, is another reason that we might use EC.
T and it's incredibly effective for catatonia.
Hmm.
Yep.
Oh, I don't have a number on that.
Um incredibly easy.
Again, we
No, we don't fully know.
And it's usually not like first line therapy for ketatonia.
It's usually if we've tried other things, usually benzodiazepines um are a first line therapy.
So that's what we would use to like which interesting is we use it to stop a seizure.
But there's a lot of things that can cause ketatonia.
One of the things that can cause ketatonia quite frequently is NMDA receptor encephalitis.
Many of you might think that you've never heard of that because it sounds like a fancy medical word, but if you've ever read the book or watched the movie Brain on Fire, it's great.
That is an example of NMDA receptor encephalitis.
And that like 30% of cases can end up with catatonia.
And while it's first line treated with immunotherapy,
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