Oneiroid syndrome

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Oneiroid syndrome is an element of the catatonic form of schizophrenia and presents with dreamy-like state as a background of intensive psychopathological experiences.

Oneiroid states were first described by the German physician Meyer-Gross in 1928, mainly statistically.

Later in 1961 the Bulgarian psychiatrist S.T.Stoyanov [1] studied the dynamics and the course of the oneiroid syndrom in "periodic", or remittent schizophrenia (ICD-10).

According to this research the syndrome has six stages in its course: (1) initial general-somatic and vegetative disorder; (2) delusional mood, (3) affective-delusional depersonalisation and derealisation, (4) fantastic-delusional and affective depersonalisation and derealisation, (5) illusional depersonalisation and dereralisation, and (6) catatonic-oneiroid state in the culmination. [2]

The prognosis of the oneiroid catatonia is optimal, in comparison with the lucid catatonia.