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  2. Congenital mirror movement disorder - Wikipedia

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    This might provide an alternate explanation for the presence of mild mirror movements in normally developing young children that typically disappear before the age of 7. [ 24 ] Some researchers propose that DCC mutations cause a reduction in gene expression and less robust midline guidance , which may lead to a partial failure of axonal fiber ...

  3. Mirroring - Wikipedia

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    When parents mirror their infants, the action may help the child develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-control, as they can see their emotions within their parent's faces. Additionally, infants may learn and experience new emotions, facial expressions, and gestures by mirroring expressions that their parents utilize. The process of ...

  4. Ulnar dimelia - Wikipedia

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    Ulnar dimelia, showing clenched position X-ray of 2-month-old female child with ulnar dimelia. Ulnar dimelia, also referred to simply as mirror hand, is a very rare congenital disorder characterized by the absence of the radial ray, duplication of the ulna, duplication of the carpal, metacarpal, and phalanx bones, and symmetric polydactyly.

  5. Synkinesis - Wikipedia

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    Facial and extraocular muscles are affected most often; in rare cases, a person's hands might perform mirror movements. Synkinesis is usually caused by dysfunction of a particular nerve. Potential causes include improper healing after nerve trauma or neurodegeneration, as occurs in Parkinson's disease. In congenital cases, mutations of genes ...

  6. Mirror stage - Wikipedia

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    A toddler and a mirror. The mirror stage (French: stade du miroir) is a concept in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror (literal) or other symbolic contraption which induces apperception (the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed by the child from outside themselves) from the age of about ...

  7. Echopraxia - Wikipedia

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    Echopraxia is a typical symptom of Tourette syndrome but causes are not well elucidated. [1]Frontal lobe animation. One theoretical cause subject to ongoing debate surrounds the role of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a group of neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (F5 region) of the brain that may influence imitative behaviors, [1] but no widely accepted neural or computational models have ...

  8. Stereotypic movement disorder - Wikipedia

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    Stereotypic movement disorder is often misdiagnosed as tics or Tourette syndrome (TS). [6] [7] Unlike the tics of TS, which tend to appear around age six or seven, repetitive movements typically start before age three, [1] [8] are more bilateral than tics, and consist of intense patterns of movement for longer runs than tics. Tics are less ...

  9. Bobble-head doll syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Bobble-head doll syndrome is a rare neurological movement disorder in which patients, usually children around age 3, begin to bob their head and shoulders forward and back, or sometimes side-to-side, involuntarily, in a manner reminiscent of a bobblehead doll.