Book Review April 15, 2006

Catatonia: From Psychoparhology to Neurobiology

Neil B. Edwards, MD

J Clin Psychiatry 2006;67(4):678-679

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Catatonia: From Psychopathology to Neurobiology is an excellent small volume on a (of late) neglected topic. It is an edited book with some 29 contributors, but it doesn’ t suffer from the problems that many such works do. Authors in one chapter frequently refer (accurately) to the contents of another chapter, as if the various authors had actually read the contributions of the others, which, clearly, they did.’ ‹