psychomotor retardation


retardation

 [re″tahr-da´shun] delay; hindrance; delayed development.mental retardation subnormal general intellectual development, associated with impairment of either learning and social adjustment, maturation, or both; see also mental retardation.psychomotor retardation a generalized slowing of physical and emotional reaction, such as that seen in major depression and in catatonic schizophrenia.

psy·cho·mo·tor re·tar·da·tion

slowed psychic activity or motor activity, or both.

psychomotor retardation

Psychiatry A generalized slowing of physical reactions–eg, eye-blinking, common in depression

Psychomotor retardation

Slowed mental and physical processes characteristic of a bipolar depressive episode.Mentioned in: Bipolar Disorder