Editing Catatonia (section)

=== Ancient history ===
There have been reports of stupor-like and catatonia-like states in people throughout the history of psychiatry.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7034030/ | pmid=7034030 | date=1981 | last1=Berrios | first1=G. E. | title=Stupor: A conceptual history | journal=Psychological Medicine | volume=11 | issue=4 | pages=677–688 | doi=10.1017/s0033291700041179 | s2cid=26932116 }}</ref> In ancient Greece, the first physician to document stupor-like or catatonia-like states was Hippocrates, in his ''Aphorisms.<ref>{{Citation |last=Roccatagliata |first=Giuseppe |title=The Idea of Melancholia in Classical Culture |date=1985 |work=Psychiatry The State of the Art: Volume 8 History of Psychiatry, National Schools, Education, and Transcultural Psychiatry |pages=89–93 |editor-last=Pichot |editor-first=P. |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-1853-9_12 |access-date=2024-11-18 |place=Boston, MA |publisher=Springer US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4757-1853-9_12 |isbn=978-1-4757-1853-9 |editor2-last=Berner |editor2-first=P. |editor3-last=Wolf |editor3-first=R. |editor4-last=Thau |editor4-first=K.}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Scholtz |first=M. |date=December 1940 |title=Hippocrates' Aphorisms |journal=California and Western Medicine |volume=53 |issue=6 |pages=272 |issn=0093-4038 |pmc=1634189 |pmid=18745795}}</ref>  He never defined the syndrome, but seemingly observed these states in people he was treating for melancholia. In ancient China, the first descriptions of people that appear in the Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Veith |first=Ilza |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520963245 |title=The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine |date=2015-12-15 |publisher=University of California Press |doi=10.1525/9780520963245 |isbn=978-0-520-96324-5}}</ref> the book which forms the basis of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is thought to have been compiled by many people over the course of centuries during the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) and the early Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE).