Abstract Objective: Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome (OMS) is an extremely rare (1 per 5 million estimated incidence), subacute movement disorder characterized by myoclonus and/or ataxia, opsoclonus, and behavioral disturbance with or without neuroblastoma. Many pediatric patients will experience long-term cognitive, behavioral, motor sequelae. This case study describes deficits associated a cours...

Introduction Elective mutism was first described in the literature in 1877 by Kussmaul who used the term "aphasia voluntaria" in order to describe children who, though not severely disturbed, are willfully mute for purposes they refuse to disclose. From this time until the 1930's there was very little else in the German literature. In 1934, Tramer coined the name "elective mutism" which has gai...

Three patients developed akinetic mutism on the third day after the introduction of intravenous cyclosporin A, given for immunosuppression after liver transplantation. One patient in addition developed a florid orofacial dyskinesia, which resolved completely, as did the akinetic mutism, after withdrawal of cyclosporin. In these patients the time course of the akinetic mutism and extrapyramidal ...

In this paper, following a literature review, a family containing a child who had been electively mute for four years is described. A concurrent programme of individual and family therapy and the systemic hypothesis which guided these interventions is then presented in detail. Behavioural and psychometric data are presented to illustrate the dramatic improvement which the identified patient sho...

We evaluated a behavioral intervention for a 9-year-old girl with selective mutism. The intervention consisted of role play and video self-modeling. The frequency of spoken initiations, responses to questions, and communication breakdowns was measured during three social situations (i.e., ordering in a restaurant, meeting new adults, and playing with new children) and in three community setting...

Although it was first described 125 years ago (and labeled aphasis voluntaria at that time by a German doctor, Kussmaul), relatively little has been studied or written about the childhood anxiety disorder now known as selective mutism. In reading through the sparse body of literature in textbooks and journals, it is not difficult to see why so many selectively mute children are being misdiagnos...

The author of this book pleads for indulgence to any shortcomings of language, on the ground that he is not an Englishman, but such indulgence is by no means necessary inasmuch as the language would do credit to any English writer. The book bristles with statistics which are, of course, drawn largely from Danish sources, but tables are also given from all countries ?f Europe as well as from Ame...