For example, a tic is an automatic form of echopraxia, involving to some slight degree the emotions and the volition and having been originally acquired by suggestion and imitation.
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Echopraxia
Synonyms for "echopraxia" (8 found)
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Czech
1 entries- echopraxie noun (involuntary repetition of the observed movements of others)
Icelandic
1 entries- hermifas noun (involuntary repetition of the observed movements of others)
Polish
1 entries- echopraksja noun (involuntary repetition of the observed movements of others)
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1964, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volumes 32-33, Institute of Living, page 260, Echolalia and echopraxia have been recognized as symptoms of seriously disturbed behavior in adults for over a century.
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Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement.
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