Motor Disorders

 Motor Disorders

1.Hypoagility:

 An overall lowering or deprivation of activities

2.Hyperagility: 

Means Excessive activity

3.Mannerisms: 

A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving

4.Stereotypies: 

A motor disorder with onset in childhood involving repetitive, nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand waving or head banging)

5.Posturing: 

An abnormal involuntary flexion or extension of the arms, legs and or body parts.

6.Waxy flexibility:

The person is nearly or completely unresponsive to stimuli and remains immobile for long periods of time

7.Echopraxia: 

Meaningless repetition or imitation of the movements of others

8.Negativism: 

Seen in patients with catatonia. opposition or no response to instructions or external stimuli

9.Automatism:

 Automatism is more or less coordinated,involuntary motor activity Occurring during a state of impaired consciousness either in the course of or after an epileptic seizure and usually followed by amnesia.

10.Agitation:

 A state of anxiety or nervous excitement

11.Tics: 

Condition that involves brief, uncontrollable, spasm-like movements

12.Compulsions: 

Compulsive acts can be defined as repetitious,purposeful physical or mental actions that the individual feels Compelled to engage in a stereotyped manner.