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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 27 Issue 3-4
published_at 1980-12

Two Cases of Schizophrenia Showing Long-standing Mutism

Two Cases of Schizophrenia Showing Long-standing Mutism
Kusunose Yukio
Yamada Michio
Nakamura Yoshitsugu
Mizuki Akio
Higashi Yoshifumi
Ota Tamio
Kodama Kazuhiko
Sato Hirokazu
Murata Masato
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During a period from December 1976 to December 1980 a total of 233 epileptic patients underwent brain CT at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Yamaguchi University Hospital, with 108 (46.4%) of these 233 having been found to have abnormal findings. No more than 6.3% of patients with primary generalized epilepsy had an abnormal brain CT. In contrast, approximately a half of patients with each of the other types of epilepsy showed abnormalities on brain CT: secondary generalized epilepsy, 50.0%
Creator Keywords
long-standing mutism
speech disturbance
elective negativism