Question
Waxy flexibility is a feature of ‑
A. Echopraxia
B. Catatonia
C. Stereotype
D. Mannerism
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Ans. ‘B’ i.e., Catatonia
Catatonia may be of following types:-
- Catatonic excitement:- Excited, uncontrolled motor activity, not influenced by external stimuli.
- Catatonic posturing:- Voluntary adoption of an unusual or bizarre position that is then maintained for some time.
- Catatonic rigidity:- Maintaining a fixed position and rigidity resisting all attempts to be moved.
- Waxy flexibility (flexibility cerea or catalepsy): – Maintaining of particular posture imposed on the patient by the examiner, even if the posture is bizarre and uncomfortable, i.e., the patient can be molded like wax into a position that is then maintained.
- Catatonic stupor:- Patient is mute and immobile (akinetic mutism) but fully conscious.
- Catatonic negativism .- A seemingly motiveless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be moved.
- Automatic obedience:- Exactly reverse to negativism, i.e., unhesitating compliance to all instructions without apparent conscious control.
