Psychomotor Activity Research Articles

Hyperactive and Hypoactive Delirium: What we know so Far

Delirium is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by acute changes in attention, cognition, and consciousness. It can present in different clinical forms, including hyperactive and hypoactive delirium. Hyperactive delirium is characterized by increased psychomotor activity, agitation, and disruptive behavior, while hypoactive delirium is characterized by reduced psychomotor activity, somnolence, and decreased responsiveness. The diagnosis of hyperactive and hypoactive delirium involves a comprehensive evaluation of medical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests to identify underlying causes and exclude other conditions. Prompt recognition and accurate diagnosis are crucial for appropriate management and treatment. The management of hyperactive and hypoactive delirium aims at addressing the underlying etiology, ensuring patient safety, and alleviating distressing symptoms. Treatment strategies include the optimization of medical conditions, discontinuation or adjustment of offending medications, and supportive care. Pharmacological interventions, such as the use of sedative medications for hyperactive delirium or stimulant agents for hypoactive delirium, may be considered when necessary. Multidisciplinary collaboration involving healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, and therapists, is essential for the comprehensive care of patients with hyperactive and hypoactive delirium. In conclusion, hyperactive and hypoactive delirium are distinct clinical manifestations of an acute confusional state. Their identification, diagnosis, and management require a multidimensional approach to address the underlying causes and alleviate symptoms. Early recognition and appropriate interventions are crucial for improving patient outcomes and enhancing their overall well-being.

ART THINKING THE FANZINE AS A LIBERATING AND CRITICAL DEVICE FOR LEARNING, CATHARSIS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION.

Art Thinking is an opportunity to transform the way knowledge is built, remodel and shared inside and outside the classroom, is not about producing art, but about using the arts as a methodology. Art is a tool to acquire awareness, a form of thought, a meta-discipline (Camnitzer, 2014) and a playful psychomotor activity (Acaso, 2017). This path and deliberate decision requires tenacious, revolutionary teachers who, for a moment, believe that they can be artists. Today more than ever we need unconventional, open, experimental, playful, generous, even why not, psycho-magical strategies that stimulate in our students a genuine impulse to learn, think and act. In this paper (1) I analyzed how this pedagogical strategy impacts critical-creative thinking and motivation of Higher Education (HE) students in the institution Tecnologico de Monterrey in the northwestern region of Mexico (2) and how a playground (metaspace) and a (3) fanzine can work as a tool (hypothesis) to achieve this aims.

Induction of Anxiety-Like Phenotypes by Knockdown of Cannabinoid Type-1 Receptors in the Amygdala of Marmosets.

The amygdala is an important hub for regulating emotions and is involved in the pathophysiology of many mental diseases, such as depression and anxiety. Meanwhile, the endocannabinoid system plays a crucial role in regulating emotions and mainly functions through the cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1R), which is strongly expressed in the amygdala of non-human primates (NHPs). However, it remains largely unknown how the CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs regulate mental diseases. Here, we investigated the role of CB1R by knocking down the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) gene encoding CB1R in the amygdala of adult marmosets through regional delivery of AAV-SaCas9-gRNA. We found that CB1R knockdown in the amygdala induced anxiety-like behaviors, including disrupted night sleep, agitated psychomotor activity in new environments, and reduced social desire. Moreover, marmosets with CB1R-knockdown had up-regulated plasma cortisol levels. These results indicate that the knockdown of CB1Rs in the amygdala induces anxiety-like behaviors in marmosets, and this may be the mechanism underlying the regulation of anxiety by CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs.

GABAergic Psychoactive Substance-Induced Delirium: Narrative Literature Review

Psychoactive substance-induced delirium is delirium which occurs during or immediate after psychoactive substance intoxication, withdrawal or during the use of specific psychoactive substance. It is characterized by sudden onset of disturbed consciousness, disorientation, hallucinations, changed psychomotor activity, insomnia, acute memory impairment, violent, and bizarre behaviour. The most commonly abused psychoactive substances which may induce delirium are those acting on the major inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma aminobutyric acid (alcohol, anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics, and gammahydroxybutyrate- GHB. Psychoactive substance-induced delirium may have hyperactive, hypoactive or mixed clinical presentation. Treatment of delirium induced by psychoactive substances is carried out with antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and sedatives, but each of the listed abused psychoactive substances has its own treatment peculiarities. This narrative literature review describes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment of delirium induced by intoxication and withdrawal from GABAergic psychoactive substances. The paper summarizes well-known knowledge with the latest research in psychoactive substances-induced delirium.

Gait disorders in unipolar and bipolar depression

ObjectivesBipolar and unipolar depressions have a similar clinical picture, but different neurological and psychological mechanisms. These misleading similarities can lead to overdiagnosis and increased suicide risk. Recent studies show that gait is a sensitive objective marker for distinguishing the type of depression. The present study aims to compare psychomotor reactivity disorders and gait activity in unipolar and bipolar depression. MethodsA total of 636 people aged 40.7 ± 11.2 years are studied with an ultrasound cranio-corpo-graph. They are divided into three groups - patients with unipolar depression, with bipolar depression and healthy controls. Each person performs three psychomotor tasks - a classic Unterberger task, a simplified version with open eyes and a complex version with an additional cognitive task. ResultsWe find significant differences in psychomotor activity and reactivity between the three groups. Bipolar patients have more inhibited psychomotor skills than unipolar and they are both more inhibited than the norms. The simplified variant of the equilibriometric task is the most sensitive one and psychomotor reactivity is a more precise marker than psychomotor activity. ConclusionBoth psychomotor activity and reactivity in gait could be sensitive markers for distinguishing similar psychiatric conditions. The application of the cranio-corpo-graph and the possible development of similar devices could lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, including early detection and prediction of the type of depression.

Atypical Presentation of Anxiety in a patient with Intellectual Disability: A case report and brief review of literature

OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of psychiatric illness in patients with Intellectual Disability remains clinically challenging in several clinical situations owing to the patient’s limited intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Hence, this may lead to different and atypical manifestation of psychiatric symptoms and signs in these patients.
 METHOD: We present a case of a 17-year-old boy with moderate intellectual disability who presented to us with chief complaints of dysphagia for 2 months. Personal history indicative of delayed milestones and difficulty in learning simple tasks. Premorbid temperament revealed anxious traits in the child. On MSE affect was distressed, speech was decreased in volume, psychomotor activity was increased and thinking revealed pre-occupation with symptom. Intelligence revealed poor general fund of knowledge and poor arithmetic ability. Insight was absent (Grade I).
 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: On the basis of history and MSE a provisional diagnosis of anxiety disorder, unspecified (F41.9) was kept. The patient was started on treatment Tab Mirtazapine 7.5mg ½ BD. The patient showed significant improvement following initiation of treatment. Patients with intellectual disability have difficulty in expressing their psychological symptoms in words at times and present with atypical symptoms of the underlying disorder. This delays their diagnosis and appropriate management. Due to lack of reporting of psychological symptoms patient often continues seeking treatment from general practitioners which leads to loss of time as well as money.
 CONCLUSION: Physicians and psychiatrists themselves need to be more watchful when evaluating a patient with intellectual disability due to the atypical presentation of symptoms.

Repetitive Negative Thinking–Specific and –Nonspecific White Matter Tracts Engaged by Historical Psychosurgical Targets for Depression

BackgroundRepetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a frequent symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD) that is associated with poor outcomes and treatment resistance. While most studies on RNT have focused on structural and functional characteristics of gray matter, this study aimed to examine the association between white matter (WM) tracts and interindividual variability in RNT. MethodsA probabilistic tractography approach was used to characterize differences in the size and anatomical trajectory of WM fibers traversing psychosurgery targets historically useful in the treatment of MDD (anterior capsulotomy, anterior cingulotomy, and subcaudate tractotomy) in patients with MDD and low (n = 53) or high (n = 52) RNT, and healthy control subjects (n = 54). MDD samples were propensity matched on depression and anxiety severity and demographics. ResultsWM tracts traversing left hemisphere targets and reaching the ventral anterior body of the corpus callosum (thus extending to contralateral regions) were larger in the high-RNT MDD group compared with low-RNT (effect size D = 0.27, p = .042) and healthy control (D = 0.23, p = .02) groups. MDD was associated with greater size of tracts that converge onto the right medial orbitofrontal cortex regardless of RNT intensity. Other RNT-nonspecific findings in MDD involved tracts reaching the left primary motor and right primary somatosensory cortices. ConclusionsThis study provides the first evidence to our knowledge that WM connectivity patterns, which could become targets of intervention, differ between high- and low-RNT participants with MDD. These WM differences extend to circuits that are not specific to RNT, possibly subserving reward mechanisms and psychomotor activity.

Interstitial pneumonia as a manifestation of COVID-19: case report

Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia is a group of progressive diseases affecting the lower respiratory tract of unknown origin, characterized by diffuse alveolitis and disorders in the alveolar structures. We present a case of a 52-year-old male patient with a history of pulmonary nodule with suspected tuberculosis and a positive PCR test, who came to the clinic for a 15-day evolution, which is characterized by high termination and general malaise. Physical examination revealed dyspneic facies with semi fowler attitude and preserved psychomotor activity as well as the presence of dry oral mucosa, the other parameters were within normal. After several studies, a diagnosis of COVID-19 viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome was made, given the severity of the patient, he was transferred to the ICU and treatment was started with oxygen therapy by mask with reservoir for SAT >90 %, ringer's lactate 1000 cubic centimeters +2 grams of vitamin C +5 cubic centimeters of B complex (40 milliliters per hour) and antibiotic therapy with Piperacillin Tazobactam 4,5 grams in slow dilution over 3 hours every 6 hours

Personality Reliability Under Risk Conditions

The research is devoted to testing the hypothesis of the inverse relationship between risk appetite and personal reliability. The study that involved students of Baikal State University, 26 girls and 22 boys from 18 to 20 years, was carried out with the help of hardware methods "AC-9K Activationometer”. The relationship between such indicators as the propensity to risk in a background situation and the propensity to risk in a significant situation was discovered. Thus, the higher the first indicator of the subject, the higher the second. The risk appetite increases when the instructions are changed and possible gains and losses are added. Most of the subjects have a high propensity for risk, but at the same time the stability characteristic of psychomotor activity is below average. There is a quite strong correlation between the propensity to risk in the background situation and the success rate in the background situation while the correlation between the indicator of self-regulation of thinking and the propensity to risk is inverse, weak. In this case, we can assume the presence of the following trend: the higher the indicator of self-regulation of thinking, the less the subjects are inclined to take risks. The relationship between the propensity to risk and the characteristic of stability in a risky situation has received a negative value. It means that the higher the propensity to risk, the lower the stability characteristic in a risky situation. A direct relationship between self-regulation of thinking and psycho-emotional stability proved that the higher the psycho-emotional stability, the higher the indicator of self-regulation of thinking. The hypothesis that there is a feedback between risk-taking and the reliability of the individual in a significant situation as well as the correlation between psycho-emotional stability and the success of hits have been confirmed.

Altered Functional Connectivity of Salience Network in Mood Disorders

IntroductionDespite the significant scientific progress in the study of the mechanisms underlying mental disorders, stable biomarkers facilitating their diagnosis and differential diagnosis are lacking. Therefore, we attempted to explore possible functional connectivity (FC) differences across some of the more prevalent mental disorders, namely mood disorders.ObjectivesThe current study aimed at investigating the alterations of the functional connectivity of major seeds of the Salience Network (SN) (the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC), and Anterior Insula (AI) in patients with unipolar (Major Depressive Disorder-MDD) or bipolar (Bipolar Disorder-BD) depression as compared to healthy controls (HC).MethodsFor this study 103 adult subjects underwent resting-state Magnetic Resonance Imaging of whom 60 were patients with a depressive episode (MDD: n=35; BD: n=25), and 43 were healthy controls (HC). The individuals in both groups were matched for age and gender. Each participant has provided written informed consent (Ethics Committee: P186/22.01.2021). Seed-to-voxel analysis was performed via the CONN toolbox running on MATLAB. Random Field Theory parametric statistics was used with a cluster-level FWE correction p<0.05.ResultsBoth the ACC and the right AI demonstrated a statistically significant increase in the FC to the somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex in patients as opposed to HC. In addition, there was hyperconnectivity between ACC and the right Superior Frontal Gyrus, Precuneus, and the Superior Parietal Lobule bilaterally in patients as well. A reduced FC between the ACC and the hippocampus and parahippocampus was observed in depression in comparison to HC. The analysis of the left AI seed yielded no statistically significant between-group differences.ConclusionsOur results demonstrate aberrant connectivity between nodes of the SN, the Default Mode Network, and the Limbic Network which might provide clarification on the mechanisms of impaired balance between internally and externally oriented attention, affective and cognitive control in depression. In addition, the alterations of the FC between SN and the somatosensory and motor cortices may be suggested as a possible explanation of the disturbances in the psychomotor activity in mood disorders.Disclosure of InterestA. Todeva-Radneva Grant / Research support from: This work has been funded by the Bulgarian National Program “European Scientific Networks” - Project DIP Neuroscience, R. Paunova Grant / Research support from: This work has been funded by the Bulgarian National Program “European Scientific Networks” - Project DIP Neuroscience, D. Stoyanov Grant / Research support from: This work has been funded by the Bulgarian National Program “European Scientific Networks” - Project DIP Neuroscience, T. Zdravkova Grant / Research support from: This work has been funded by the Bulgarian National Program “European Scientific Networks” - Project DIP Neuroscience, S. Kandilarova Grant / Research support from: This work has been funded by the Bulgarian National Program “European Scientific Networks” - Project DIP Neuroscience

Self-Intuitive Therapy and Psychomotor Activity with Angel Brachial Index (ABI) To Prevent the Risk of Diabetic Foot Complications at The Mokoau Health Center

Therapy Self Intuitive Dan Activity Psikomotor Dengan Angel Brachial Index (Abi) Self Intuitive Therapy and Psychomotor Activity with Angel Brachial Index (Abi) To Prevent the Risk of Diabetic Foot Complications at Mokoau Health Center Blood flow disorders in the legs can be detected by measuring the ankle brachial index (ABI). This..

Gender-specific issues of strength training loads planning for elite female athletes

Introduction
 Strength training is a fairly popular topic, both among sports product users and among scientists in Switzerland and other countries around the world. Nevertheless, the analysis of the literature is indicating that there is not enough scientifically based research on gender-specific issues of strength training loads planning for female athletes in sports of higher achievements.
 Purpose
 The goal of this study was to identify gender-specific issues in the planning of strength training loads for elite female athletes based on the psychophysiological and biomechanical methods of controlling.
 Methods
 To determine the model characteristics of the optimal psychophysiological state (indicators of the efficiency of attention, volume of voluntary attention, productivity, coefficients of motivational, volitional and typological components, stress resistance) and balance function of elite male and female athletes during practising competitions, we compared two independent groups (women, n = 17 and men, n = 24). All participants were aware of the objectives of the study and agreed to participate. Mathematical and statistical processing and data analysis were carried out using the computing and graphic capabilities of the computer programs “Statistica” (Statsoft, version 7.0) and Microsoft Excel 2010.
 Results
 The analysed factors and their component indicators to determine the state of psychophysiological functions for women and men. The analysis of the obtained indicators indicates that the manifestation of the characteristics of psychophysiological functions for men and women has its own gender characteristics. For men, it is a predominance of attention, and for women, mobility and strength of nervous processes. As for the quality of the balance function, significantly higher indicators (p < 0,05) are observed for women precisely when performing an attempt with closed eyes.
 Conclusions
 The sexual peculiarities of the formation of psychophysiological functions of elite athletes, the functional peculiarities of psychomotor and mental activity, as well as the peculiarities of the psychophysiological organization of information processing were revealed. The nuances regarding the indicators of quality of the balance function among elite athletes, depending on gender, are revealed, which is primarily related to the location of the centres of gravity: in women, it is located in the hips, and in men, it is much higher. This will, for example, directly affect the difference in the recommended angle in the knee area for female and male athletes during the strength exercise “squat with a barbell”. In addition, we would like to note that the data of the studied literature sources and our previous studies allow us to formulate a hypothesis regarding the change in the speed of basic training in elite female athletes under the influence of hormonal changes in different phases of their menstrual cycle. This hypothesis will be further investigated in forthcoming research.

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Behavioral Activity Rating Scale (BARS) for the Brazilian population.

Few instruments are available in Brazil to evaluate psychomotor activity in psychiatric emergency, clinical, and research settings. This study aimed to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Behavioral Activity Rating Scale (BARS) into Brazilian Portuguese and assess the adapted scale's psychometric properties. An expert consensus committee conducted a translation and back-translation of the original scale, resulting in the BARS-BR. Four pairs of physicians administered the BARS-BR and the Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS) to patients in a hospital psychiatry emergency room and patients in the hospital's psychiatric wards. The BARS-BR was compared to the SAS to assess concurrent validity and internal consistency was evaluated with the Bland-Altman technique. In the emergency room, the correlation coefficients between the first and second assessments were rho = 0.997 and rho = 1.0, respectively. In the hospital wards, the correlation coefficient between the pair of evaluators was rho = 0.951. There were strong correlations between the BARS-BR score of the first examiner and the SAS score of the second examiner (rho = 0.903) and between the SAS score of the first examiner and the BARS-BR score of the second examiner (rho = 0.893). The BARS-BR showed good psychometric properties, and we recommend its use because it constitutes an easy method for assessment of changes in psychomotor activity. Further studies are suggested to evaluate adoption and comprehension of the BARS-BR scale by all classes of healthcare professionals.

Impact of Degeneration of the Prelimbic and Infralimbic Cortices on Psychomotor Activity and Cognitive Func-tion in Rats Stereotaxically Injected with Ibotenate

Impact of Degeneration of the Prelimbic and Infralimbic Cortices on Psychomotor Activity and Cognitive Func-tion in Rats Stereotaxically Injected with Ibotenate

Catatonia and Delirium: Assessment of Comorbidity, Prevalence, and Therapeutic Response in Medically Ill Inpatients From a University Hospital.

Catatonia is a cluster of motor features present in multiple psychiatric and clinical diseases. It may be confused with delirium because both entities are classified according to the type and degree of psychomotor activity. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, criteria for catatonia secondary to medical conditions exclude comorbid catatonia and delirium; besides, there have been increasing reports about a comorbid presentation. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of comorbid catatonia and delirium, the therapeutic response to lorazepam, and the clinical characteristics of patients with an earlier diagnosis of delirium. A total of 120 consecutive patients at a university hospital with an earlier diagnosis of delirium were evaluated using the Delirium Scale (confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit) and the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale for catatonia. In cases of a positive diagnosis of catatonia or catatonia/delirium, a therapeutic trial with intramuscular lorazepam was performed. Thirty-one patients (26%) were positive for both catatonia and delirium, and 8 patients (7%) had catatonia. Sixty-six patients (55%) were positive only for delirium, and 5 patients (4%) were negative for delirium and catatonia. Lorazepam tests were applied on 22 patients. One in 9 patients with catatonia/delirium responded positively to lorazepam. Patients with catatonia had a 60% positive response rate. This is the first study on lorazepam use in catatonia-delirium patients; however, further studies are needed to determine the safety and efficacy of lorazepam in these patients. Catatonia and catatonia/delirium are underdiagnosed in inpatient wards and should be routinely assessed in patients with an altered mental status.

Diagnostic Challenges in the Assessment of Psychiatric Illness among Persons with Speech and Hearing Impairments in India

Abstract The prevalence of psychiatric illness among the hearing impaired does not vary from the general population. This case series highlights two different presentations of psychiatric illness in speech and hearing-impaired patients. The first case describes a patient that was diagnosed to have unspecified nonorganic psychosis after a detailed assessment and observation. The second case describes the challenges in diagnosing depression versus organicity. Difficulties in communication act as a barrier to psychiatric assessment, and there are no clear guidelines for the same. Both of these cases summarize the challenges faced in assessment, mental status examination, the lack of knowledge of linguistics hindering assessment, and the paucity of literature on psychiatric problems in speech and hearing impaired, especially in India. We found that these may be overcome by consistent ward observation, assessment of psychomotor activity, affect, functional analysis of aggression, and course and duration of the presenting illness.

DELIRIUM: NARRATIVE REVIEW

Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by acute onset of decits in attention and in multiple aspects of cognition. The prevalence of delirium varies considerably by patient group and setting, tending to be more common in hospitalized older adults or the critically ill. Three phenotypes of delirium are recognized depending on psychomotor activity (hyperactive, hypoactive, mixed). Its diagnosis is based on the criteria established in the DSM V, however we have diagnostic tools used in clinical practice such as 4A, CAM and ICDSC. The pharmacological management of delirium is still a matter of debate, treatments with antipsychotic drugs have been shown to reduce motor activity, but they do not seem to affect the dura

Psychological Peculiarities of Physical Rehabilitation of Patients with Ischemic Stroke

the purpose of the research is: to study the characteristics of disorders of psychomotor function and psycho-emotional state of patients with ischemic stroke according to the initial examination; to develop a method of physical re-habilitation of patients with ischemic stroke at the inpatient stage of rehabilita-tion, depending on the severity of psychomotor functions and features of the psycho-emotional state; to outline psychological essence of biomechanical laws which direct the disorders of the psychomotor function of a personality.research methods. There were used the following psychological and peda-gogical research methods: the analysis of literature sources, the method of psy-chological and pedagogical observation, psychological and pedagogical experi-ment.the results of the research. The methods of functional biomanagement with external feedback are proved to be fundamentally new and promising in physical rehabilitation, having been used with the aim of training physiological or retraining pathologically impaired functions. The empirical data is shown to be obtained corresponding to the goals and tasks of the movement restoration system in the case of various diseases and brain injuries. The strongest stimula-tor of movement is proved to be so called kinesthetic sense, to reproduce con-sciously performed movements. Kinesthetic sense is a mean that is a necessary prerequisite for the rehabilitation of patients with ischemic stroke. conclusions. The psychological essence of biomechanical laws is defined in relation to the disorders of the psychomotor function of a person: 1) the rule of redistribution of functions of the affected limb; 2) the rule of functional copying of another person’s movements; 3) the rule of ensuring the optimum in psycho-motor activity.

The Influence of Guided Inquiry Learning Model through Experimental Method for Understanding the Concept of Students in Calorie Material

This study aims to see the effect of the application of guided inquiry learning models through experimental methods on students' concepts comprehension in the calorific material of class XI at YPK Oikoumene High School. The instruments used in this project include pretest, posttest, and worksheet questions to measure students' cognitive domains and psychomotor observation sheets to measure students' psychomotor. This type of research is pre-experimental design research. The population in this study is the same as the sample used, namely class XI Science YPK Oikoumene High School academic year 2020/2021, amounting to 22 students. Data analysis using the application Facets, Ms Excel and SPSS 22. The results showed that the guided inquiry learning model through the experimental method influences the understanding of student concepts, and the n-gain test value of 0.78 is a high criterion. The value of psychomotor activity meeting 1, 2, and 3, respectively 86.14, 85.96, and 90.35, also increased. Psychomotor values can be seen that the guided inquiry learning model through the experimental method of understanding the concept has increased. It can be concluded that there is an influence of the guided inquiry learning model through the experimental method on students' concepts comprehension, worksheet, psychomotor, and happy learning physics.

Clinical and Sociodemographic Profile of Psychomotor Agitation in Mental Health Hospitalisation: A Multicentre Study.

Psychomotor agitation is characterised by an increase in psychomotor activity, restlessness and irritability. People with psychomotor agitation respond by over-reacting to both intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, experiencing stress and/or altered cognition. The objective of this study is to assess the clinical and sociodemographic profile of psychomotor agitation in patients with severe mental disorders. The study was carried out in Spain by means of multicentre cross-sectional convenience sampling involving 140 patients who had been admitted to psychiatric hospital units and had experienced an episode of psychomotor agitation between 2018 and 2021.Corrigan's Agitated Behaviour Scale was used to assess psychomotor agitation. The results show that the predominant characteristic in psychomotor agitation is aggressiveness, which is also the most reported factor in patients with severe mental disorder. Patients who also have anxiety develop psychomotor agitation symptoms of moderate/severe intensity. The clinical and sociodemographic profile found in our study is consistent with other studies on the prevalence of psychomotor agitation.