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Some of these tests determine the presence of soft neurologic signs e.g., adventitious motor overflow, motor impersistence, Gegenhalten.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Schizophrenics also demonstrate poor motor regulation, varying from perseverative behavior (repetitive movements and actions) and motor inertia (difficulty starting motor actions and stopping them once started) to motor overflow (adventitious movements) and motor impersistence (inability to maintain a single motor task despite adequate motor and sensory function).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Inability to persist with both extremities with eyes open may be due to the frontal lobe dysfunction called motor impersistence or to motor weakness of one or both upper extremities 544, Chapter 13; 980.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Other warning signs are discernable difficulties in fine and gross motor coordination, motor impersistence, or the “inability to sustain certain voluntary motor acts initiated on verbal commands” Garfield, Benton, and Mac-Queen, 1966.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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Slide 29: Contemporary View of ADHD • Reduced vigilance (impersistence; disinhibition) • Poor response inhibition & motor planning • Poor interference control
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