Catatonia is a condition associated with a number of serious mental and physical illnesses. It is characterized by extreme and bizarre changes in muscle tone or activity. There are two specific types of catatonia--catatonic stupor and catatonic...

(from Greek, kata: down, tonos: stretching) Catatonia is one of the four types of SCHIZOPHRENIA idcntified by Kraepelin (1856–1926), the others being paranoid (see PARANOIA) and HEBEPHRENIA. Catatonia involves periods of muscular RIGIDITY and...

Catatonia is a syndrome of psychic and motoric disturbances. In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated...

Be Cool can be considered a sequel to Get Shorty (1995), even though 10 years have passed since the adaptation of that earlier Elmore Leonard novel.In the meantime, there have been changes in the directors (F. Gary Gray for Barry Sonnenfeld), screenwriters (Peter Steinfeld for...

Airplanes crashing into New York apartment buildings. Teenagers shooting up their classrooms. Rising death tolls in a meaningless war nobody understands. New dance companies that require audiences to watch their ballets on iPods. Millions of dollars spent on—and miles of newsprint devoted to—time-wasting junk Web...

Airplanes crashing into New York apartment buildings. Teenagers shooting up their classrooms. Rising death tolls in a meaningless war nobody understands. New dance companies that require audiences to watch their ballets on iPods. Millions of dollars spent on—and miles of newsprint devoted to—time-wasting junk Web...

Rediscovering Tammy Grimes, who is currently electrifying New York sophisticates at the new Metropolitan Room in Chelsea, isn’t exactly a shock in a town that lives on an adrenaline rush. You can’t exactly call this a comeback, because she’s never really been away. But for...