Wandlungen in der Nomenklatur der depressiven Bewußtseinsstörungen durch zwei Jahrtausende

Making childhood catatonia visible, separate from competing diagnoses

“…Indeed, this led several authorities to confuse the diagnoses of melancholia and (catatonic) stupor. Kayser–Petersen, in a 1924 review of the literature on ‘depressive disturbances of consciousness’ going back to Antiquity, gives a comprehensive account of stupor without even mentioning catatonia (8). In addition, the early medical literature abounds with patients who had both stupor and catalepsy.…”