Catalepsy is produced by a sudden sharp noise, or by the sight of a brightly gleaming object.
For the moment, I thought he had been seized with a fit of catalepsy.
He hurried back into the room and found his patient in a state of catalepsy.
I was in a kind of conscious catalepsy.
Nearly all the means for producing hypnotism will, if carried to just the right degree, produce catalepsy.
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Effects of cannabinoid receptor stimulation and blockade oncatalepsyproduced by dopamine receptor antagonists.
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Besides the psychomotor symptoms, such as mutism, posturing, negativism, andcatalepsy, catatonic patients frequently experience paranoid symptoms, often combined with extreme states of anxiety and even hallucinations.
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Instead, we had the same stale old party claptrap trundled out that he has given us on every occasion in the last five years to inducecatalepsyin his audience.
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The four behavioral components of the tetrad are spontaneous activity,catalepsy, hypothermia, and analgesia.
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His life crashes around him when he finds he suffers fromcatalepsy, an incurable condition marked by loss of voluntary motion.
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The longer you keep them in the state ofcatalepsy, the deeper they sink into the third state.
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Examples include thecatalepsy, headache, epilepsy and nightmares.
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One of his claims to fame was the account of his resurrection of a young lady (who probably was just a victim ofcatalepsy).
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He has avoided reality through hiscatalepsybut also through his fantasies, visions, and obsession with death.
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Notably, its effects on locomotion are biphasic, with low doses producing inhibition andcatalepsyand high doses resulting in enhancement of activity.
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The band's name is a variation of the wordcatalepsy, a disorder involving catatonic schizophrenia.
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All that is required are a few precise injections to put the leviathan in a permanentcatalepsy.
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The characteristic features of dissociative anesthesia were described ascatalepsy, amnesia and analgesia.
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I kept him ten minutes in this state ofcatalepsy.
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It induces sedation, hypothermia, ptosis, and (in higher doses)catalepsy; it inhibits spontaneous motor activity, conditioned avoidance response, amphetamine toxicity and stereotypy.
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