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Chuck, who has schizophrenia, tends to remain motionless for hours and then becomes agitated. chuck's symptoms characterize:

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Chuck's symptoms characterize catatonia. Catatonic schizophrenia involves bodily symptoms-stiffness or excessive motor activity and taking of unusual body positions. Person with catatonia can, for example, to stand on one leg for hours without moving, which is to a normal person impossible.
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