| 21. | But like so many psychiatric disorders, selective mutism has been demystified during the age of neuroscience.
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| 22. | The boy with autism and the girl with selective mutism, mentioned above, are good examples.
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| 23. | Recent evidence has shown that trauma does not explain why most children with selective mutism develop the condition.
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| 24. | Medication, when used, should never be considered the entire treatment for a person with selective mutism.
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| 25. | Patients with depression can experience apathy, slurring of speech, and body movements similar to akinetic mutism.
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| 26. | A variety of treatments for akinetic mutism have been documented, but treatments vary between patients and cases.
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| 27. | Another patient, Billy Prior, suffers from mutism and will only write communications with Rivers on a notepad.
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| 28. | By day 2 ( D2 ), many patients experienced confusion, agitation, dysarthria, mutism and incontinence.
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| 29. | Some previous studies on the subject of selective mutism have been dismissed as containing serious flaws in their design.
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| 30. | Williams, who was shy herself as a child, no longer dwells on why her daughter developed selective mutism.
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