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manic stupor

manic stupor

A rarely used term, of uncertain validity in the working medical parlance, described by Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) as a bipolar mixed state characterised by the flight of ideas accompanied by gross motor retardation and elevation of mood.
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Kraepelin described a total of 6 types of mixed states (depressive or anxious mania, excited depression, mania with thought poverty, manic stupor, depression with flight of ideas, and inhibited mania) and pure depression.
Diagnosing and Managing Depressive Episodes in the DSM-5 era
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