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Abulia Absence of initiative or will in frontal dysfunction Acalculia Inability to do arithmetic problems Achromatopsia Inability to recognize colors (color agnosia) or total color blindness ADLs Activities of daily living Agnosia See visual agnosia Agraphesthesia Inability to recognize numbers outlined on palm or fingertips Agraphia Inability to write Akathisia Motor restlessness associated with sensation of a need to move Akinesia Decreased or absent voluntary movement as in parkinsonism Akinetic mutism Severe apathetic state in which patient cannot speak or initiate behavior Alexia Inability to recognize letters (an agnosia) Alexithymia Sifneos' term for inability to use words to describe one's emotion Alimentary (automatism) Automatic chewing movements during seizure Allesthesia Perceptual transfer of a real object to a different location or to the blind hemifield Allodynia Painful response to non-painful stimulus (neuropathic or psychogenic) Ambitendency Ambivalence of actions in psychosis reflected by series of tentative movements that do not accomplish the intended voluntary action Ambulatory (automatism) Automatic walking during seizure Amusia Inability to recognize musical components or musicality Anomic aphasia Aphasia with most prominent deficit in naming but diagnostic criteria weaker than other aphasias Anosodiaphoria Denial of severity of (indifference to) deficit, usually hemiparesis Anosognosia Denial of deficit due to neurological etiology Antalgic (gait) Limping gait due to pain in one extremity Anterograde (amnesia) Loss of new learning abiliity subsequent to the cause of amnesia Anti-saccade Ability to look away from object being followed Aphasia Disorder of language due to brain lesions Aphonia Inaudible speech Apperceptive (agnosia) Inability to recognize, discriminate among, or copy objects Associative (agnosia) Inability to recognize objects despite ability to describe and copy them Assonance Loose associations or flight of ideas in which words are connected by rhyming internal vowel sounds Astereognosis Inability to name objects placed inhand with eyes closed Asterixis Inability to maintain a fixed extremity posture against gravity without "flapping" Athetosis Slow irregular twisting involuntary movements Aura Perceptual symptom experienced before a migraine; simple partial seizure preceding a generalize or complex partial seizure Automatic obedience Automatic compliance with every instruction regardless of consequences, seen in catatonia and dementias Automatism Automatic movements during amnestic phase of seizure Autoscopy Hallucination of seeing ones' (double) self at a distance Autotopagnosia Inability to recognize parts of one's own body Axial (praxis) Ability to assume whole body postures to command