| ambulatory automatism | A person's automatic performance of an action or series of actions without being consciously aware of the processes involved in the performance. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| automatism | <neurology> A condition whereby an individual is consciously or unconsciously, but involuntarily, compelled to perform certain motor or verbal acts, often purposeless, foolish or harmful. Seen in psychomotor epilepsy, catatonic schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, complex partial seizure, posttraumatic automatism and other conditions. Synonym: automatic behaviour. Origin: Gr. Automatismos = self action (02 Jan 1998) |
| posttraumatic automatism | A posttraumatic state in which the individual performs automatically without immediate or later memory of that behaviour. (27 Sep 1997) |
| immediate posttraumatic automatism | A posttraumatic state in which the patient performs automatically without immediate or later memory of that behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |