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Stereotypic Movement Disorder

"Stereotypic Movement Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Motor behavior that is repetitive, often seemingly driven, and nonfunctional. This behavior markedly interferes with normal activities or results in severe bodily self-injury. The behavior is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. (DSM-IV, 1994)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Stereotypic Movement Disorder" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Stereotypic Movement Disorder" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.