(1) Continuous administration of haloperidol, sulpiride, or cis-flupenthixol, but not of domperidone or apomorphine, to Wistar rats for up to 3 weeks caused an increase in spontaneous purposeless chewing movements.
(2) Best of all was the technic Lego, the gears and axles and motors that formed the guts of fantastical machines, frequently purposeless but endlessly fascinating.
(3) They avoid eye contact, show no interest in people, express little emotion, and repeat stereotypic movements such as head nodding and purposeless finger manipulation.
(4) The operative results in idiopathic cases are poor; it seems to be purposeless to operate patients who have a paresis for a long time.
(5) The ESC said the decision to air the series of jokes was a "regrettable lapse of editorial judgment" and that programme-makers "need to be aware that audiences may find casual or purposeless stereotypes to be offensive".
(6) It asked about "purposeless habits," defined as those "repeated actions that appear to serve no useful purpose but that we continue to engage in anyway."
(7) Tics are purposeless and repetitive involuntary movements and vocalizations with variable and complex means of expression.
(8) At the onset of purposeless, unco-ordinated movements of the entire body, blood samples were obtained to determine the CNS excitation-threshold plasma concentration (ETPC) of laudanosine.
(9) These data support the role of 5-HT receptors in the mediation of purposeless chewing behaviour and suggest an interaction between brain 5-HT and acetylcholine systems.
(10) He criticises it for not having an aircraft carrier in operation, despite the two costly and purposeless ones on order.
(11) Single administration of D-2 dopamine agonist bromocriptine also showed a slight but significant purposeless chewing, which was decreased by sulpiride pretreatment.
(12) They recommended that the earliest surgical intervention be accorded patients with intermittent exotropia of 20 delta and over, instead of purposeless waiting and observation.
(13) Psychoanalysis does not predict outcome as required by philosophical determinism, but traces it backwards to find that it is meaningful, and not arbitrary or purposeless.
(14) Contrary to previous reports, acute manipulation of D-1 or D-2 receptor function can both enhance purposeless chewing behaviour in rats.
(15) The new towns of the postwar period were also infected by Unwinism and were built to unsustainably low densities, with land being wasted in over-large plots and purposeless areas of open space.
(16) Pericyazine provided significant improvement in such parameters as co-operation, temper, purposeless activities, hyperactivity, communication and mood.
(17) Cholinomimetic drugs are known to induce changes in perioral behavior in rodents, characterized primarily by "purposeless" chewing movements, but little is known about their central sites of action.
(18) The dogs had excitement and purposeless muscle movements during recovery from anesthesia.
(19) There was something particularly purposeless about the year they gave the award to the Arctic Monkeys' debut album, not because Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not wasn't good, but because everyone was already abundantly aware that it was: it had sold 360,000 copies in the week it was released alone.
(20) The results suggest that two additional factors that did not differ between specialties require further examination, namely patient behaviour and purposelessness of nursing care.