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Copropraxia

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Copropraxia
The involuntary display of unacceptable/obscene gestures.
Mentioned in: Tourette Syndrome

Copropraxia
Making obscene gestures, a complex motor tic performed quasi-involuntarily by patients with Tourette syndrome


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The verbal tics may also be expressed as coprolalia (the involuntary use of obscene words or socially inappropriate words and phrases) or copropraxia (obscene gestures).
Some of those conditions are (a) a lack of inhibition control, (b) speech problems (palalalia, coprolalia, echolalia and stuttering), (c) copropraxia (use of obscene gestures), (d) echopraxia (imitating the behaviors of others), (e) poor handwriting (Davidovicz, 1994; Meyers, 1998), and (f) limitations associated with any comorbid conditions the person may have.
 
 
 
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