When associated with coarse disease, particularly of the brain stem, the syndrome is termed akinetic mutism 969. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
After nearly drowning at the age of 3, she has lived with what doctors call akinetic mutism, unable to move or speak. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Miracles - January 1, 2000] Reference
I just wonder if something like the Predictors would actually cause akinetic mutism… hmmm, maybe. From Wordnik.com. [BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » What’s Expected of Us by Ted Chiang] Reference
When stupor is associated with catatonia, the patient appears to be awake and may follow the examiner about the room with his eyes, as do patients with akinetic mutism. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Three features—mutism, negativism, and stupor—occur together more frequently than by chance (14) and correspond to the clinical syndrome of negativistic stupor (i.e., akinetic mutism or coma vigil secondary to frontal lobe damage, third ventricle tumors, or lesions of the reticular activating system and caudal hypothalamus; 969). From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
CNS - cerebral, cerebellar or midbrain (Parkinsonism and akinetic-mutism). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Patients with fibromyalgia sometimes have sign of a movement disorder in addition to sensory disturbances sometimes similar as those found in akinetic syndromes. From Wordnik.com. [Search for "depression"] Reference
N. - paralysis of motor nerves. akinetic, adj. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
akinetic, 28, 29, 62. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
akinetic, 237, 246t atonic, 237. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
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