If the patient elevates his hands, he has echopraxia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Kinesthetic praxis can be tested simultaneously with echopraxia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
If the patient touches his own nose, he has manifested echopraxia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
These abnormalities are termed stimulus-bound behavior; they include echopraxia and Gegenhalten 969. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Several trials may be needed to assess (1) whether the patient understood the request and (2) the severity of the echopraxia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
If the patient copies these hand positions with his left hand regardless of what he does with his right hand, he has echopraxia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
If the patient keeps his arms elevated or if the patient again elevates his arms when the examiner next raises his, the echopraxia is severe. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
To verify that this latter error is the product of echopraxia, and not left-right disorientation (a dominant parietal dysfunction) (229), the patient is also tested for right-left orientation. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Tics motor dapat sederhana (misalnya: mata berkedip-kedip tak terkontrol, mengejapkan mata berkali-kali, sering mengangkat-angkat bahu) atau kompleks (misalnya: meniru gerakan orang lain atau echopraxia). From Wordnik.com. [Mengenal Misteri Sindrom Tourette – Netsains.Com] Reference
As examples, complex motor tics can involve touching objects or other people, jumping up and down, spinning around, or even more complex motor sequences such as imitating someone else's actions (echopraxia) or exhibiting inappropriate or taboo gestures or behaviors. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to The old Gaza boy and the sea] Reference
As examples, complex motor tics can involve touching objects or other people, jumping up and down, spinning around, or even more complex motor sequences such as imitating someone else's actions (echopraxia) or exhibiting inappropriate or taboo gestures or behaviors (copropraxia). From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to The old Gaza boy and the sea] Reference
Includes echolalia, in which the patient constantly repeats the examiner’s utterances, and echopraxia, in which the patient spontaneously copies the examiner’s movements or is unable to refrain from copying the examiner’s test movements despite instruction to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Overflow, persistence, echopraxia, Gegenhalten, idiokinetic praxis, kinesthetic praxis, constructional praxis, dressing praxis, handedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
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