Catalepsy

Both are not to be confused with cataplexy.

Catalepsy (Greek κατάληψις, katálēpsis - occupying, Gripping, German and catalepsy ) is sometimes also referred to as stupor vigilans.

The term describes a condition be maintained excessively long in the active or passive occupied postures. For example, a passive leg is lifted from the substrate, it remains after the release in the air. This disorder occurs primarily in schizophrenic disorders, but partly also with organic brain disorders.

Catalepsy is often associated with a strong and pronounced psychomotor slowing disorder of the drive, a condition referred to as stupor.

From a catalepsy and adolescents have not infrequently a waxy increase muscle tone in passive movements, the so-called flexibilitas cerea. That is, the joints allow you to bend passively with little trouble and keep the given position at.

In addition to the pathological form of catalepsy may occur as one of the so-called hypnotic phenomena or to suggest specific person entranced by hypnotist even in a hypnotic trance.