Akinetic mutism following prefrontal injury by an electrical grinder a case report

Akinetic mutism--not coma.

We describe a case of akinetic mutism mistaken as coma. A 77-year old lady presented with apparent unresponsiveness. In fact she responded when stimulated. She subsequently developed movements typical of clonic perseveration, erroneously treated as seizures. She also had features of a frontal lobe syndrome. Initial CT scan showed no abnormality; it was only after an MRI scan that a diagnosis of...

Akinetic mutism following coal-gas poisoning with subsequent recovery.

Preserved auditory cognitive ERPs in severe akinetic mutism: a case report.

kinetic mustism is a dramatic deficit in spontaneous initiation of voluntary motor and speech acts, usually secondary to bilateral lesions of the anterior cingulate cortices and supplementary motor areas [Principles of Neurology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1989]. Given the obvious limitations of traditional neuropsychological testing in this clinical context, the use of neurophysiological tools suc...

Akinetic mutism after right internal watershed infarction.

We describe a 72-year-old man who developed akinetic mutism following a cerebrovascular accident involving his right internal watershed area and responded well to dopaminergic agonists. We discuss this rare condition and the unusual unilateral location of the lesion.

A case report of an unexpected traumatic brain injury following severe child abuse

Introduction: Child abuse has been defined as allowing others to cause physical, emotional, and sexual harm, and also physical and emotional pain to a child. The present study was a report on a case of physical and sexual child abuse accompanied by traumatic brain injury (TBI) referred to an emergency department.Case Presentation: A 4-year-old child was rushed into an emergency department...