catatonia

Example Sentences

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Part of Wachtel's work focuses on catatonia in patients with autism.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2023

Some families seem to sink into a catatonia that he knows means he should give them space.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021

Some experts championed shock therapy, others called for institutionalization; some psychotherapists saw madness as a metaphor and some doctors prescribed catatonia by tranquilizers.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2020

That’s what director-choreographer Josh Rhodes and Co. managed to do at the Kennedy Center, with this smashing revival-in-concert of the hallucinogenic story of a boy who goes from catatonia to superstardom.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2019

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides