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BODY FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 1
MENTAL FUNCTIONS
specific mental functions
b147 Psychomotor functions
Specific mental functions of control over both motor and psychological events at the body level.

Inclusion
functions of psychomotor control, such as psychomotor retardation, excitement and agitation, posturing, catatonia, negativism, ambitendency, echopraxia and echolalia; quality of psychomotor function

exclusion
consciousness functions (b110); orientation functions (b114); intellectual functions (b117); energy and drive functions (b130); attention functions (b140); mental functions of language (b167); mental functions of sequencing complex movements (b176)



b1470 b1471 b1478 b1479
Psychomotor control Quality of psychomotor functions Psychomotor functions, other specified Psychomotor functions, unspecified
Mental functions that regulate the speed of behaviour or response time that involves both motor and psychological components, such as in disruption of control producing psychomotor retardation (moving and speaking slowly; decrease in gesturing and spontaneity) or psychomotor excitement (excessive behavioural and cognitive activity, usually nonproductive and often in response to inner tension as in toe-tapping, hand-wringing, agitation, or restlessness.) Mental functions that produce nonverbal behaviour in the proper sequence and character of its subcomponents, such as hand and eye coordination, or gait.


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