Talk:Perseveration

message: Is there a link between perseveration and repetitive electronic music styles?  i.e., is the same part of the brain affected?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.112.151 (talk) 14:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perseveration and electronic music 

message: The Asperger example doesn't seem very explanatory to the people who wouldn't know anything about it already. I'd suggest expanding or rewriting. --OGoncho (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Asperger example

message: "If an issue has been fully explored and discussed to a point of resolution it is not uncommon for something to trigger the re-investigation of the matter. This can happen at any time during a conversation. This is particularly true with those who have had traumatic brain injuries."
This is well nigh impossible to decipher.  Can someone please provide a translation?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.88.112.253 (talk) 01:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarity

message: When was the term coined? Looking at the Wiktionary entry for "-ate," it doesn't seem to often be attached to verbs to make other verbs. I never really understood it, etymologically or otherwise, when I was growing up, despite being frequently chided for it. Best as I could tell, it meant "like perseverance, except I don't like you doing it." --Shay Guy (talk) 19:12, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be taken from a German word, which was common in the mid-1900s in psychology. —Soap— 15:27, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of the term? 

message: Although original reference was removed, perseverative conversations (and actions) are common to many Aspergers patients and it is widely described as such (and is distinct from OCD), such behaviour is also used as an aid to spotting AS spectrum children. At some point a good reference should go back in, but I'm not familiar enough with this to do a acceptable job on it; a couple of possible refs:
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by EasyTarget (talk • contribs) 18:12, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: this makes more sense in the article about AS than in this article--81.84.110.111 (talk) 23:45, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aspie Trait 

message: It seems that most of the comments on this talk page relate in one way or another to people failing to distinguish between the etymologically related--but nonetheless very distinct--words "persevere" and "perseverate". Could we add the "not to be confused with" (or whatever it's called) template to the top with "perseverance" as the variable value? (perhaps unsurprisingly, there is no dedicated WP page for the term "perseverance" itself, but maybe the text could hyperlink to the wiktionary page? I am not familiar with how this particular template works...) YarLucebith (talk) 05:02, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perseveration vs. perseverance 

message: User:Mountain9 it isn't clear to me what you are after with this diff and this diff, with "However, in animal experiments it can be demonstrated that perseveration is a cognitive rather than a motor disorder."  Are you trying to make some contrast with the other disorders listed there?   Pinging User:Permstrump who may have useful input here... Jytdog (talk) 20:18, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Since that study is pretty old and it's an animal study, it's probably not a great source to use here. The study seems to be about amphetamine's effect on perseveration and not perseveration in general and it also says, "In man there is evidence that amphetamine induces motor stereotypy (Rylander 1971) and affects cognitive functions, e.g. 'focussing of attention' (Robbins and Sahakian 1979)." In papers, "perseveration" is usually used with other qualifiers like "verbal perseveration", "cognitive perseveration", "motor perseveration", etc., so it doesn't seem accurate to say it's entirely cognitive. —PermStrump(talk) 22:06, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cognitive.. 

message: I removed the sentence "The resistance to transition may be a coping mechanism or the brain's method to compensate for the lack of ability to regulate the application of attention" as the "resistance to transition" is not a coping mechanism or a compensation for the lack of ability to switch attention, it is that disability. It must be understood that ADHD, the so-called "attention deficit" disorder, is a deficit in attentional control. The condition is demonstrated by a difficulty with setting focus to something that's uninteresting (bad), a difficulty with removing focus from something that's interesting but inappropriate (bad), a difficulty with removing focus from something that's interesting and useful (good, but not so good when it causes self-neglect such as not eating, suffering an overfull bladder, not going to bed, etc). Which reminds me, I really must stop reading Wikipedia, go and get some food and then go to bed. ;o) 92.13.59.35 (talk) 00:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  In ADHD