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Automatism: (1) The state of being independent of the will or of central innervation; applicable, for example, to the heart's action. (2) An epileptic attack consisting of stereotyped psychic, sensory, or motor phenomena carried out in a state of impaired consciousness and of which the affected person usually has no knowledge. (3) A condition in which a person is consciously or unconsciously, but involuntarily, compelled to performan certain motor or verbal acts, often purposeless and sometimes foolish or harmful. SYN: telergy. [G. automatos, self-moving, + -in]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Automatism: Automatic, mechanical, and apparently undirected behavior which is outside of conscious control.
Source: MeSH 2007
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