The experience is linked to depersonalisation . A dyspraxia is a difficulty with a previously learnt or acquired movement or skill. An example might be a dressing dyspraxia or a constructional dyspraxia. Dyspraxias tend to indicate cortical damage, particularly in the parietal lobe region. Echolalia A speech disorder in which the person inappropriately and automatically repeats the last words he or she has heard.
Palilalia is a form of echolalia in which the last syllable heard is repeated endlessly.
Echopraxia A movement disorder in which the person automatically and inappropriately imitates or mirrors the movements of another. First rank symptoms Schneider classified the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia as first-rank features of schizophrenia. In mania and hypomania thoughts become pressured and ideas may race from topic to topic, guided sometimes only by rhymes or puns. Ideas are associated though, unlike thought disorder. This follows frontal lobe damage or may be consequent upon a lesion such as a tumour of infarction.