Catatonialike symptomatology and withdrawal dyskinesias

The authors describes a patient who presented catatonialike symptoms and dyskinesias associated with glutethimide discontinuance and antihistamine use. He hypothesizes that altered dopamine metabolism may produce some of the unusual neuropsychiatric characteristics of glutethimide withdrawal. Drug-withdrawal catatonia may be an additional entity in the differential diagnosis of catatonialike states of organic etiology.