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Automatism

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Automatism may refer to:

  • Automatic behavior, spontaneous verbal or motor behavior
  • Automatism (law), a defense used in criminal law
  • Automatism (toxicology), when an individual repeatedly takes a medication because the individual forgets previous doses
  • Automatic writing, the process, or product, of writing material that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer
  • Surrealist automatism, an art technique
  • Automatism (medicine), repetitive unconscious gestures, such as lip smacking, in certain types of epilepsy

See also

  • Automatic (disambiguation)
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