The polysemous concepts of psychomotricity and catatonia: A European multi-consensus perspective

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serval:BIB_841A4D2EF296
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
Title
The polysemous concepts of psychomotricity and catatonia: A European multi-consensus perspective
Journal
European Neuropsychopharmacology
Author(s)
Foucher Jack R., Jeanjean Ludovic C., de Billy Clément C., Pfuhlmann Bruno, Clauss Julie M.E., Obrecht Alexandre, Mainberger Olivier, Vernet Remi, Arcay Hippolyte, Schorr Benoit, Weibel Sébastien, Walther Sebastian, van Harten Peter N., Waddington John L., Cuesta Manuel J., Peralta Victor, Dupin Lucile, Sambataro Fabio, Morrens Manuel, Kubera Katharina M., Pieters Lydia E., Stegmayer Katharina, Strik Werner, Wolf R. Christian, Jabs Burkhard E., Ams Miriam, Garcia Claudio, Hanke Markus, Elowe Julien, Bartsch Andreas, Berna Fabrice, Hirjak Dusan
ISSN
0924-977X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2022
Volume
56
Pages
60-73
Language
english
Abstract
Current classification systems use the terms “catatonia”and “psychomotor phenomena”as mere a-theoretical descriptors, forgetting about their theoretical embedment. This was the source of misunderstandings among clinicians and researchers of the European collaboration on movement and sensorimotor/psychomotor functioning in schizophrenia and other psychoses or ECSP. Here, we review the different perspectives, their historical roots and highlight discrep- ancies. In 1844, Wilhelm Griesinger coined the term “psychic-motor”to name the physiological process accounting for volition. While deriving from this idea, the term “psychomotor”actually refers to systems that receive miscellaneous intrapsychic inputs, convert them into coherent behav- ioral outputs send to the motor systems. More recently, the sensorimotor approach has drawn on neuroscience to redefine the motor signs and symptoms observed in psychoses. In 1874, Karl Kahlbaum conceived catatonia as a brain disease emphasizing its somatic - particu- larly motor - features. In conceptualizing dementia praecox Emil Kraepelin rephrased catatonic phenomena in purely mental terms, putting aside motor signs which could not be explained in this way. Conversely, the Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard school pursued Kahlbaum’s neuropsychi- atric approach and described many new psychomotor signs, e.g. parakinesias, Gegenhalten . They distinguished 8 psychomotor phenotypes of which only 7 are catatonias. These barely overlap with consensus classifications, raising the risk of misunderstanding. Although coming from different traditions, the authors agreed that their differences could be a source of mutual enrichment, but that an important effort of conceptual clarification remained to be made. This narrative review is a first step in this direction.
Keywords
Pharmacology (medical), Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology (clinical), Neurology, Pharmacology
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Web of science
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Yes
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