Justin began interning at a mental hospital, and worked on a ward with individuals suffering from schizophrenia. One of the patients he saw barely moved, and was mute and impassive. Prior to the DSM-5 revision, the patient would have been categorized as having a specific type of schizophrenia, referred to as ________ schizophrenia.
A) paranoid
B) residual
C) undifferentiated
D) catatonic

Question

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The symptom of being mute and impassive is characteristic of catatonic schizophrenia, which is a subtype of schizophrenia that is now replaced in the DSM-5 with the specifier "with catatonia."

Justin Began Interning at a Mental Hospital, and Worked on a Ward