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Fasciculations Small involuntary twitches of skeletal muscles under the skin Festinating (gait) Tendency for parkinsonian patients to fall forward and take tiny steps Finger agnosia Inability to distinguish among fingers on the hand Finger gnosis Ability to recognize fingers Finger identification Ability to correctly identify fingers Finger naming Abiity to correctly name fingers Flight of ideas Rapid speech with frequent topic shifts verging from understandable connections in hypomania to incoherence in mania Folie a deux Shared delusion Forced thinking Repetitive intrusive thoughts at onset of seizure Form agnosia Inabilty to recognize whole objects (recognize only details) Formication Subjective sensation of insects crawling on the skin Fortification spectra Jagged light lines resembling battlements of a castle typically seen in migrainous visual aura Fragmentation Disconnected phrases consisting of real words in formal thought disorder Fregoli syndrome Delusion that people have been replaced by a familiar persecutor in disguise (form of delusional misidentification)