Elektrokonvülsif Tedaviyle Düzelen Beş Yıllık Mutizm Olgusu
Samet Köse, Köksal Alptekin, Tunç Alkin, Zeliha Tunca, Mehmet Hancİoğlu
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2
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Research
Mutism is a common manifestation of psychiatric, neurological, and medical illness. Schizophrenia, affective disorders, conversion disorder, dissociative states, basal ganglia, frontal lobes and limbic system, pathologies might cause mutism. Mutism is often associated with other signs of catatonia. Here a case of mutism for five year duration was presented and its rapid resolution following ECT administration was discussed.
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Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1995;8:9-11
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