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Stereotypische Bewegungen bei Geisteskranken im hoheren Lebensalter —Ein Beitrag zu dem Problem der Stereotypic—
Author(s) -
SUGIMOTO Naoto,
HOSHI Tôru,
MIWA Takahisa,
HIRABAYASHI Kanji
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1970.tb01474.x
Subject(s) - stereotypy , psychology , mastication , repetition (rhetorical device) , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience , philosophy , orthodontics , linguistics , amphetamine , dopamine
Summary In view of the fact that a repetition of the same behavior was manifested in over 60‐year‐old psychotic patients, we gave an opinion on stereotypy. We have recognized in those patients no verbigeration but only a stercotypically repeated behavior. These stereotypic movements were found in 20 cases, 17 of which showed a stereotypic masticating movement. This stereotypic mastication could, it. seems, belong to iteration. From the fact that the iteration appears in a serious demenia or a deteriorated state, wc dealt with stereotypy in association with a mentally deserted state. We believe that the stereotypy or iteration of aged psychotic patients can be understood neither psychopathologically as a problem of intentionality nor neurologically as that of localization of a lesion in the brain.