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