Abstract
A woman aged 20, first presenting with what appeared to be hysterical blindness as part of the syndrome of hysterical pseudo-dementia, soon showed the picture of speech-prompt catatonia, one of the subtypes of chronic schizophrenia described by Karl Leonhard. However, within a short time the neurological, EEG and laboratory findings indicated that the condition was one of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Blindness / etiology
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Catatonia / diagnosis*
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins / analysis
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Electroencephalography
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Female
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests
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Humans
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Hysteria / diagnosis
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Intelligence
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Leukocyte Count
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Lymphocytes / analysis
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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / cerebrospinal fluid
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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / diagnosis*
Substances
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins