Tic is a psychomotor affection, and there are two inseparable elements in its constitution, a mental defect and a motor defect.
Innumerable tics arise in this way, provoked, mayhap, by some or other insignificantpsychomotor hallucination.
Tissié explains the action of this method on tics by a special action of regular respiration on psychomotor centres.
In its mildest form the mental trouble may consist of an ordinary psychomotor hallucination, but if it be not projected as an objective phenomenon it does not deserve to be called a tic.
It is a trivial act of obsessional insanity, provoked by some or other insignificant psychomotor hallucination.
The young child's reactions are preponderately motor, or at any rate psychomotor and not purely psychic.
Psychomotor overactivity is abnormal activity of both mind and body, contrary to reason and uncontrolled by will.
Psychomotor overactivity (volition unable to check) { as in mania.
Psychomotor retardation is an underactivity of both mind and body in which consciousness is dulled and the body sluggish.
Psychomotor retardation (volition unable to energize) \ as in depression.
Her general conduct combined with her abnormal psychomotor activity gave ground for the diagnosis of constitutional excitement--hypomania.
Her tests for psychomotor control were miserably done.
During the spring-time the behavior seems, as far as the investigations go, to be different in the intellectual and in the psychomotor activities.
This psychomotorside of the process, and not the mere muscle activity as such, is indeed the essential factor which should interest us.
We have excellent experimental investigations concerning the influence of the loss of sleep on intellectual labor and on simple psychomotor activities.
An excellent investigation of this caffein effect on various psychological and psychomotor functions has recently been completed.
It is claimed that the efficiency of the intellectual functions decreases as the winter recedes, but that the efficiency of psychomotor impulses increases.
The subtlest variations of the activity, the increase and decrease of the psychomotor impulse, the mental fatigue, can be traced exactly in such graphic records.
The results appear surprising only if we forget how endlessly complex this psychomotor apparatus really is.
We must remember here the psychomotor character of our brain processes which we so fully discussed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychomotor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
