Eating-like disorder

Imitative autism: visible horror, happiness, anger and thoughts and other emotional state expressions and physical movements. It is a clinical manifestation of automatism. Complex partial motor seizures are more coordinated and adaptive with unconscious activity and amnesia, which is called automatism. About 75% of patients experience cheek-tongue movements and about 50% of facial or neck movements, which can be secondary to generalization. Food-like automatism: manifests eating or tasting actions, such as licking the lips, stretching the tongue, pouting, and clearing the throat, often accompanied by drooling, chewing, swallowing, or nasal spray, etc. to a certain degree of stereotypes. Eating autism is a clinical manifestation that mimics autism.

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