Glossary for Catatonia

Medical terms related to Catatonia or mentioned in this section include:

• AIDS: A term given to HIV patients who have a low CD4 count (below 200) which means that they have low levels of a type of immune cell called T-cells. AIDS patients tend to develop opportunistic infections and cancers. Opportunistic infections are infections that would not normally affect a person with a healthy immune system. The HIV virus is a virus that attacks the body's immune system.
• Acute stress disorder: An acute anxiety state
• Addison's Disease: A rare progressive hormonal disorder characterized by insufficient production of certain hormones called adrenal corticosteroids.
• Adrenal gland symptoms: Symptoms affecting the adrenal glands
• Anorexia: This is known as a lack of or loss of appetite for food
• Bipolar disorder: Cycles of mania and depression; commonly called "manic-depression".
• Bleeding symptoms: Any type of bleeding symptoms.
• Brain cancer: Cancer of the brain.
• Brain conditions: Medical conditions that affect the brain
• Brain tumor: A condition which is characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue within the brain
• Brain tumour: various extrinsic and intrinsic factors add up to to cause tumour in the brain
• Catatonic schizophrenia: Catatonic Schizophrenia means lessened muscle tone its symptoms are motor disturbances.
• Cognitive impairment: General loss of mental or cognitive ability
• Coma: Loss of consciousness for a long period
• Delirium: Severe mental deterioration
• Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
• Drug abuse: Drug use as a symptom of other conditions
• Electrolyte imbalance: impairment in the level of electrolytes in the body
• Encephalitis: Infection of the brain (as a symptom)
• Heat stroke: it is a life threatening condition. It is hyperthermia in an advanced state
• Heatstroke: it is a life threatening condition. It is hyperthermia in an advanced state
• Huntington's Disease: Inherited disease causing progressive mental deterioration.
• Huntington's disease: Inherited disease causing progressive mental deterioration.
• Hysteria: hysteria describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses
• Immune symptoms: Symptoms affecting the immune system
• Malaria: A parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites.
• Malignant hyperthermia: A very rare genetic disorder where sufferers suffer episodes of adverse reactions when certain anesthetics or muscle relaxants are administered.
• Meningitis: Infection of the membrane around the brain (as a symptom)
• Mood disorders: Disorders that affect a persons mood
• Multiple Sclerosis: Autoimmune attack on spinal nerves causing diverse and varying neural problems.
• Neurolept malignant syndrome:
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: A severe, potentially fatal reaction to antipsychotic drugs.
• Neurosyphilis: Syphilis affecting the nervous system.
• Parkinson's Disease: Degenerative brain condition characterised by tremor.
• Presenile dementia, Kraepelin type: A form of dementia that occurs prematurely and is inherited in a familial pattern.
• Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
• Seizures: Uncontrolled physical movements
• Seizures - intellectual deficit due to hydroxylysinuria: A rare syndrome characterized by mental retardation, seizures and high levels of hydroxylysine in the urine.
• Status epilepticus: A condition which is characterized by a continuous series of generalized tonic clonic seizures
• Stroke: Brain-related symptoms of bleeding or blockage.
• Stroke symptoms: Brain-related symptoms of bleeding or blockage.
• Strychnine poisoning: Excessive ingestion of strychnine.
• Subarachnoid haemorrhage: A condition which is characterized by haemorrhage of blood into the subarachnoid space
• Syncope: Loss or interruption of consciousness.
• Tay Sachs Disease: A condition which is causes GM2 gangliosidosis
• Tetanus: A disease caused by chemicals which are produced by a bacterium (clostridium tetani) and are toxic to the nerves. The infection usually occurs when the bacteria enter the body through a deep wound - these bacteria are anaerobic and hence don't need oxygen to survive.
• Tuberculosis: Bacterial infection causing nodules forming, most commonly in the lung.
• Tuberous sclerosis: A rare genetic disorder characterized by harmartomatous skin nodules, seizures, phakomata and bone lesions.
• Unconsciousness: A condition which is characterized by impaired consciousness
• Wilson's Disease: Wilson disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration, is a neurodegenerative disease of copper metabolism.
• Wilson's disease: Wilson disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration, is a neurodegenerative disease of copper metabolism.

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