Perseveration: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Perseveration

Transient Global Amnesia

Our patient is a 64-year-old white man with a previous history of myocarditis from borreliosis who developed sudden-onset confusional state with perseverations and repetition [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The perseveration-consolidation hypothesis: Mueller and Pilzecker, 1900. Brain Research Bulletin. 1999; 50 445-446 18 Melo T P, Ferro J M, Ferro H. [oadoi.org]

Frontal Lobe Neoplasm

Perseveration - a tendency to continue with one form of behaviour when a situation requires it to change. [patient.info]

Motor test : Perseveration can be shown by asking the patient to perform a series of three movements: make a fist, lay the palm on the desk and then place the side of the [patient.info]

Pick Disease of The Brain

Hyperorality 0000710 Inappropriate laughter 0000748 Irritability Irritable 0000737 Language impairment 0002463 Neuronal loss in central nervous system Loss of brain cells 0002529 Perseveration [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Alliance, National Center on Caregiving - (800) 445-8106 Picksdisease.org Pick’s Information Page National Alliance for Caregiving Support path, Dementia Multimedia Motor perseveration [emedicinehealth.com]

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

Some other symptoms typical during the disease onset include impaired cognition, memory deficits, and speech problems (including aphasia, perseveration or mutism).The symptoms [en.wikipedia.org]

Dementia

While in hospital, he had approximately 15 episodes of catatonia, involving rigidity, negativism, mutism except echolalia and perseveration, automatic obedience and utilisation [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (MDRS) ( Mattis 1988 ) assesses cognitive function on five subscales: attention, initiation‐perseveration, construction, conceptualisation [doi.org]

Alzheimer Disease

Catatonic Schizophrenia

[…] flexibility (maintenance of limbs and body in externally imposed positions); and g. other symptoms such as command automatism (automatic compliance with instructions), and perseveration [psychcentral.com]

[…] flexibility (maintenance of limbs and body in externally imposed positions); and other symptoms such as command automatism (automatic compliance with instructions), and perseveration [mhreference.org]

Disorganized Schizophrenia

[…] include other abnormalities in speech such as: Thought blocking – suddenly stopping speaking and forgetting the original topic Neologisms – the invention and use of new words Perseveration [goodtherapy.org]

Patients may experience poverty of speech, perseveration (repetition of a particular response), neologisms, and thought blocking. [belmarrahealth.com]

All of the following must be present to fit the criteria for this subtype: Disorganized speech (e.g., word salad, incoherence, perseverance) Disorganized behavior (e.g., difficulty [psycom.net]

Catatonia

While in hospital, he had approximately 15 episodes of catatonia, involving rigidity, negativism, mutism except echolalia and perseveration, automatic obedience and utilisation [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Perseveration 3 0 0 0 22. Combativeness 1 0 0 0 23. [doi.org]

Perseveration 3 0 0 0 22. Combativeness 1 0 0 0 23. Autonomic abnormality 3 1 3 1 BFCRS total score …/69 43 2 13 1 Diazepam 10 mg 40 mg 30 mg 40 mg Days D0 D2 D5 D6 1. [doi.org]

Apodia

‘Ideal’ moth nights in terms of weather have been few but perseverance can pay dividends, as was the case when I added Black Arches to a site list. [thmcf.wordpress.com]

Fragile X Syndrome

Boys with FXS+ASD produced a higher proportion of single utterance perseverations. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Speech and language problems can include echolia, perseveration, poor language content, and cluttering (dropping of letters or syllables when speaking). [healthcentral.com]

Specific speech disorders may include echolalia and perseveration (the inability to complete a sentence due to repetition of words at the end of a phrase). [patient.info]

Familial Developmental Dysphasia

Atypical behaviors include those considered to be uncommon, such as perseveration on specific activities, adherence to strict daily rituals, aloofness, and echolalia (repeating [pedsinreview.aappublications.org]

Look out for difficulty in finding the right word and perseveration. This is inappropriate repetition of the same word or phrase. [aacknowledge.org.uk]

Those who do speak may have echolalia, perseveration, pronoun reversal, extreme literalness, monotony of tones, failure to use correct cadence and intonation, failure to develop [hawaii.edu]

Akinetic Mutism

He also exhibited behavioural changes, namely apathy, slowness, lack of spontaneity, disinhibition, perseveration, gait apraxia and incontinence consistent with frontal lobe [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

References 1 Clonic perseveration following thalamofrontal disconnection: a distinctive movement disorder, Mov Disord, 1997, vol. 12 (pg. 378 - 85 ) 2 Die perseveration, Ueber [academic.oup.com]

Clonic perseveration is an unusual but well recognised sign which may be mistaken for seizures. [academic.oup.com]

Subcortical Dementia

At all levels of dementia severity, HD patients demonstrated greater impairment than AD patients on the Initiation/Perseveration sub-scale, whereas AD patients demonstrated [n.neurology.org]

Executive dysfunction includes poor word list generation and verbal fluency (design generation), impaired motor programming with perseveration and impersistence, and difficulty [karger.com]

−0.19 −0.15 −0.90 0.04 Previous category perseveration WCST previous category perseveration −0.01 −0.04 0.14 0.98 Because 4 factors were identified, 6 brain-behavior regression [ahajournals.org]

Acquired Epileptic Aphasia

[…] electrical activity was closely related in time with the development of a neuropsychological and behavioral pattern characterized by inattention, impulsiveness, mood swings and perseveration [omicsonline.org]

Other symptoms include babbling, neologisms, verbal perseveration or mutism. [tidsskriftet.no]

Mononen-Karnes-Senac Syndrome

Persevere in with assessment and at 5 minutes, forgiving should be gifted to call back 34 of the items. [blkhospital.com]

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm without Rupture

0002366 Astrocytosis 0002446 Dysgraphia 0010526 Motor aphasia Loss of expressive speech 0002427 Mutism Inability to speak Muteness [ more ] 0002300 Parkinsonism 0001300 Perseveration [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Niemann-Pick Disease Type C2

[…] speech 0002371 Low cholesterol esterification rate 0003349 Muscular hypotonia Low or weak muscle tone 0001252 Neurofibrillary tangles 0002185 Onset Age symptoms begin 0003674 Perseveration [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Bruyn Scheltens Syndrome

Creative individuals must persevere through periods of ambiguity and uncertainty in order to see their undertaking through to its ultimate success. [esf-cat.org]

However, the tenability of this position is challenged by the undeniable observation that humans often pursue and persevere in creative endeavors out of sheer enjoyment (Nakamura [esf-cat.org]

Elbow Injury

[…] interference with daily living, and painful locking of the elbow. 6 Primary care management of painful elbow conditions may require many months of conservative management, perseverance [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Malignant Catatonia

Abstract Catatonia is a syndrome characterized by mutism, immobility, negativism, stereotypy, mannerisms, echophenomena, perseveration and passive obedience. [scopemed.org]

Indeed, she presented with frontal lobe syndrome (perseverations, grasping, lack of emotions, lack of initiative, speech reduction and aphasia), severe impairment of memory [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Early neuropsychological and speech testing confirmed the presence of frontal-like aphasia with perseverations, significant slowness, severe verbal and non-verbal impairment [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Impulsivity

Furthermore, urgency and lack of perseverance were associated with binge eating and lack of perseverance was associated with problematic use of pornography. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The present meta-analysis aims to examine the direction and magnitude of relationships between specific impulsivity-related traits, namely lack of premeditation, lack of perseverance [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Lack of perseverance showed a similar interactive pattern to a lesser degree and sensation-seeking did not predict uncontrolled eating. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chronic Hyperventilation

Much strength to all of you and persevere! Aaria [hyperventilation.info]

Repeat, repeat, repeat as perseverance is the only way to success. Improving your tolerance to CO 2 via breathing is not something you can get lucky at. [aloeride.com]

This is only possible under the condition that you have patients and perseverence during this therapy. [15minutes4me.com]

Ganser Syndrome

This answer could be an example of perseveration. His attention, though arousable, was ill sustained. [indianjpsychiatry.org]

Perseveration. Echolalia. Echopraxia. Confusion. Precipitating stress. Loss of personal identity. There is no typical finding on examination. [patient.info]

In addition, paraphasia, perseveration, perplexity, nominal aphasia, misidentification of familiar persons and ill sustained attention may have been due to the brain lesion [indianjpsychiatry.org]

Specific Language Impairment 1

Both SLI and HFA responses showed higher rates of perseveration compared to controls. There were no significant differences in revisions among the 3 groups. [neurology.org]

[…] subtests of 16 children with SLI, 28 children with HFA, and 52 typically developing (TD) participants were examined for response length, grammatical errors, filler words, perseverations [neurology.org]

Waaler-Aarskog Syndrome

Evaluation and logical basis target part or chain does not stop the pos- Evaluations of the perseverance of the confirmation on sibility that the agency may grounds cancer [chesapeakehumane.org]

X-Linked Amelogenesis Imperfecta Type 2

This bias results in further tunnel vision and prompts belief perseverance, where a false belief is maintained despite firm contradictory evidence. [themighty.com]

C Syndrome

Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) has been adapted for children (BADS-C) to examine a number of aspects of the dysexecutive syndrome (DES) such as: inflexibility and perseveration [pearsonclinical.co.uk]

Receptive Aphasia

[…] repetition - Poor auditory comprehension (varies) - Fluent output with some paraphasias anomia (word finding difficulties) - Incoherent expression with circumlocutions and perseverations [quizlet.com]

Look out for difficulty in finding the right word and perseveration. This is inappropriate repetition of the same word or phrase. [aacknowledge.org.uk]

Enamel Hypoplasia - Cataracts - Aqueductal Stenosis

This includes: developmental and language delays, problems in gross motor skills, hypersensitivity to sounds, being picky eaters, and perseverating. [agentorangequiltoftears.com]

[…] tetraplegia Bradykinesia Visual hallucinations Brain atrophy Parkinsonism Adult onset Neurofibrillary tangles Choreoathetosis Chronic diarrhea Behavioral abnormality Lewy bodies Perseveration [mendelian.co]