akinetic mutism

Three weeks later, she said, Audrey emerged from the coma and now lives in a state called akinetic mutism.

In severe cases, patients may enter a coma-like state (akinetic mutism).

Medical textbooks define akinetic mutism as often linked to damage to the brain's frontal lobes.

When the Anterior cingulate cortex is damaged it will create akinetic mutism.

Akinetic mutism.

When she awoke from the coma, she remained in a state called akinetic mutism - non-speaking and limited movement.

Akinetic mutism is inability to speak (mutism) and move (akinesia).

Most experts agreed that aboulia is clinically distinct from depression, akinetic mutism, and alexithymia.

A rare cause of mutism is akinetic mutism which results due to a lesion around 3rd ventricle of brain.

Akinetic mutism is a medical term describing patients tending neither to move (akinesia) nor speak (mutism).

Bilateral ischemia of the area supplied by the paramedian artery can cause serious problems including akinetic mutism, and be accompanied by oculomotor problems.

Aboulia falls in the middle of the spectrum of diminished motivation, with apathy being less extreme and akinetic mutism being more extreme than aboulia.

Behavior that is associated with lesions in the ACC includes: inability to detect errors, severe difficulty with resolving stimulus conflict in a Stroop task, emotional instability, inattention, and akinetic mutism.

Unilateral injury or injury along any point in the circuit leads to aboulia regardless of the side of the injury, but if there is bilateral damage, the patient will exhibit a more extreme case of diminished motivation, akinetic mutism.

Differential brain imaging of patients with such global disturbances of consciousness (including akinetic mutism) reveal that dysfunction in a widespread cortical network including medial and lateral prefrontal and parietal associative areas is associated with a global loss of awareness.

Dr. Giacino said Mr. Herbert's condition reminded him in some ways of cases of akinetic mutism, a form of stupor in which patients do not speak and do not move, even though the speech and motor systems of the brain are still viable.

Diagnosis for aboulia can be quite difficult because it falls between two other disorders of diminished motivation, and one could easily see an extreme case of aboulia as akinetic mutism or a lesser case of aboulia as apathy and therefore, not treat the patient appropriately.