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  • ||||||||||  memantine / Generic mfg.
    When Being Antagonistic Is a Good Thing: Using Memantine as Salvage Therapy for Catatonia From NMDA-Receptor Encephalitis () -  May 5, 2022 - Abstract #APA2022APA_1128;    
    Memantine was later uptitrated to 5 mg twice a day - while lorazepam was weaned down - with continued improvement in catatonic symptoms...First, catatonia has a medical etiology in up to 46% of cases (Stern 2018), and this rate increases with age and level of care (Oldham 2018)...In turn, many clinicians are hesitant to prescribe memantine for such cases, with scant evidence to refute this. This is a unique case that demonstrates memantine’s utility and safety profile in cases of NMDA-R encephalitis-induced catatonia through a patient who was falsely assumed to have a primary psychiatric illness due to demographic factors.