Clinically, dysfunction in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex may be reflected in mutism and stupor.
These vary from a delirium, causing more or less anxiety, to definite meninjtis producing rapid and stupor and ultimately, coma.
The convulsions of syncope are not usually followed by postictal stupor or malaise.
It is possible that the term referred to what is now referred to as hypoactive delirium, or else pre-terminal stupor.
In psychiatry, stupor means stupefied or dull, without implying a decrease of wakefulness as it does in current neurology.
Clinically, this may be reflected in stupor, or the inability to make either verbal or nonverbal contact with other persons at all.
The disease catatonia derives its name from the psychomotor symptoms that immediately preceded or accompanied the stage of stupor.
He is not slumped in his usual stupor.
