Catatonia: History and modernity. Multidisciplinary research. Ed. Smulevich A.B.

The monograph presents a multidisciplinary study of catatonic disorders and their relationships with other psychopathological dimensions, which are in the clinical space of schizophrenia, the disorders of schizophrenic and schizo -the -effective spectrum.

The book presents the epidemiology of catatonia, based on the modern dimensional paradigm of mental disorders, Systematics and psychopathological differentiation of motor symptom complexes. Psychological models and clinical scales for evaluating catatonia are considered. A special block is devoted to neurobiological (immunological, genetic, neurophysiological and neuroimaging) studies of Catatonia. A special place is occupied by the design of the clinical and biological model of Catatonia developed in the FGBNU “Scientific Center for Mental Health”. The issues of stopping catatonic disorders are considered in the aspect of modern achievements of psychopharmacotherapy (the use of antipsychotics of the last generations, derivatives of benzodiazepine, etc.) and electricity therapy, and differentiated indications are given to the use of psychotropic drugs and electricity therapy, based on the typological differentiation of motorcy symbols P. > The book is designed for psychiatrists and doctors of other specialties, psychologists, specialists in the field of neurobiology.