The other significant finding in our case was
dramatic response of mutism to single ECT session.
To best of our knowledge, this is the first case report
showing such a dramatic response of non-catatonic
mutism to just a single ECT session in combination
to antipsychotic medications. Earlier, there have
been two case reports that have mentioned about
response of ECT. Basu et al. reported improvement of
a non-catatonic mutism of 3 years in a schizophrenic
patient to 14 sessions of ECT.[5] Grover et al. reported
improvement of a similar patient on continuation ECT
after being mute for 2 years.