| 11. | For some patients, sectioning may be followed by a brief spell of mutism.
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| 12. | Because of her mutism, she spend the next six months in Solitary confinement.
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| 13. | It is uncertain how many children are affected by selective mutism or what causes it.
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| 14. | Selective mutism occurs in all ethnic groups.
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| 15. | Cho's selective mutism has not been identified as the reason for his behavior.
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| 16. | However, akinetic mutism most often appears in two different forms : frontal and mesencephalic.
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| 17. | Like so many psychiatric disorders, selective mutism has been demystified during the age of neuroscience.
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| 18. | Most experts agreed that aboulia is clinically distinct from depression, akinetic mutism, and alexithymia.
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| 19. | Akinetic mutism varies across all patients.
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| 20. | Medical textbooks define akinetic mutism as often linked to damage to the brain's frontal lobes.
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