Akinetic mutism
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Akinetic mutism is a medical term describing patients tending neither to move (akinesia) nor speak (mutism). It is the result of severe frontal lobe injury in which the pattern of inhibitory control is one of increasing passivity and gradually decreasing speech and motion.
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