movements
Last reviewed 01/2018
Psychiatric disorders may alter movements:
- depressive affective disorder:
- slow, ponderous movements
- in extreme cases there may be immobility and mutism (stupor)
- mania:
- movements are rapid and pressured
- there is overactivity and restlessness
- rarely there may be stupor
- anxiety:
- restless
- tremulous movements
- parkinsonism:
- difficulty in initiating movement
- slow, stiff movements
- may be tremor