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Pls can you advice what psychomotor retardation is ?. thanks
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A slowing of motor: Activity seen in patients with severe depression, dementia, or psychosis with catatonic state. Eye, blinking, for example, can be slowed. Emotional reactions, also. It is not a diagnostic term to describe a person with intellectual disability & cerebral palsy.
Answered 1/17/2013
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