1. He was the inventor of infimetric and akinetic exercise equipment. 2. However, akinetic mutism most often appears in two different forms : frontal and mesencephalic. 3. Most experts agreed that aboulia is clinically distinct from depression, akinetic mutism, and alexithymia. 4. Akinetic mutism varies across all patients.5. Medical textbooks define akinetic mutism as often linked to damage to the brain's frontal lobes. 6. Patients with depression can experience apathy, slurring of speech, and body movements similar to akinetic mutism. 7. A variety of treatments for akinetic mutism have been documented, but treatments vary between patients and cases. 8. It is also approved for treatment of typical and atypical absences, infantile myoclonic, myoclonic and akinetic seizures. 9. One patient, aged 75, was left mute and akinetic for a month following surgery and then developed dementia. 10. Similarly to akinetic mutism, patients with locked-in syndrome experience paralysis and can only communicate with their eyes.
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