Utilisation behaviour

Question 1

What is utilisation behaviour

Answer 1

patients exhibit an automatic yet exaggerated and contextually inappropriate response to environmental stimuli and objects

Question 2

Give an example of utilisation behaviour

Answer 2

a patient may automatically start brushing their teeth when presented with a toothbrush, even in an inappropriate setting, such as during a doctor’s consultation.

Question 3

Which lobe lesions does utilisation behaviour arise from?

Answer 3

Frontal lobe

Question 4

What is imitation behaviour

Answer 4

Patient involuntarily replicates the actions of an examiner

Question 5

What is alien hand sign

Answer 5

Involuntary hand movements that feel out of the patients control

Question 6

What is manual groping behaviour?

Answer 6

Patients hand often along with the eyes seems magnetically drawn to follow and manipulate objects after tactile stmulation like incessantly fiddling with buttons or fabric of clothing

Question 7

What is the grasp reflex?

Answer 7

involuntary grip on objects or stimuli considered normal reflex in infants

Question 8

What is environmental dependency syndrome?

Answer 8

Loss of autonomous action control with the patient overly reliant on environmental cues for behavioural direction