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  2. Psychomotor retardation - Wikipedia

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    It can cause a visible slowing of physical and emotional reactions, including speech and affect. [1] Psychomotor retardation is most commonly seen in people with major depression and in the depressed phase of bipolar disorder; [2] it is also associated with the adverse effects of certain drugs, such as benzodiazepines. [3]

  3. Disabilities affecting intellectual abilities - Wikipedia

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    There are a variety of disabilities affecting cognitive ability.This is a broad concept encompassing various intellectual or cognitive deficits, including intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation), deficits too mild to properly qualify as intellectual disability, various specific conditions (such as specific learning disability), and problems acquired later in life through ...

  4. Smith–Fineman–Myers syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Facial deformities with Smith-Fineman-Myers syndrome. SFMS affects the skeletal and nervous system. This syndrome's external signs would be an unusual facial appearance with their heads being slightly smaller than average, a narrow face (clinically known as dolichocephaly), a large mouth with a drooping lower lip that is held open, protruding upper jaw, widely spaced upper front teeth, an ...

  5. Disorders of diminished motivation - Wikipedia

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    A multitude of terms have been used to refer to DDM of varying severities and varieties, including apathy, abulia, akinetic mutism, athymhormia, avolition, amotivation, anhedonia, psychomotor retardation, affective flattening, akrasia, and psychic akinesia (auto-activation deficit or loss of psychic self-activation), among others.

  6. Retarded depression - Wikipedia

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    Retarded depression is a category of depression characterized by slow thinking and behavior (psychomotor retardation). [1] It is contrasted with agitated depression (characterized by heightened psycho motor activity).

  7. Major depressive episode - Wikipedia

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    People with depression may be overly active (psychomotor agitation) or very lethargic (psychomotor retardation). [1] Psychomotor agitation is marked by increased body activity, which may result in restlessness, an inability to sit still, pacing, hand wringing, or fidgeting with clothes or objects. [3] Psychomotor retardation results in a ...

  8. Bradyphrenia - Wikipedia

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    Psychomotor retardation was proposed by the researchers as a condition particularly seen in major depressive disorders. Researchers had conducted a study to examine in ways in which the two conditions share similarities in analysing diagnosed Parkinson Disease patients and patients who had been diagnosed with depression.

  9. Intellectual disability - Wikipedia

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    Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom), [3] and formerly mental retardation (in the United States), [4] [5] [6] is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant impairment in intellectual and adaptive functioning that is first apparent during childhood.