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Multilingual Catatonia: A Case of Differential Symptom Severity Across Primary and Secondary Languages
Erika Kaske1, Scott Beach1, Rick Wolthusen2
1Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School.
Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
|February 22, 2026
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