Environmental dependence syndrome
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Environmental dependency syndrome is a syndrome
where the affected individual relies on environmental cues in order to accomplish goals or tasks. It is a disorder in personal autonomy that is influenced by individual psychological traits and can be helped through the intervention of other people. For example, adults diagnosed with ADHD have relied on special coaches to provide cues at appropriate times, helping them to make decisions about how to prioritize and order tasks, while patients with focal unilateral frontal lobe
lesions have been observed in environments such as a doctor's office, a lecture room, a car, a garden, an apartment they were visiting (where a range of activities were possible) and in a gift shop. Individuals with this syndrome can exhibit striking behaviour, as if compelled to respond to the situation in which they found themselves.
Syndrome
In medicine and psychology, a syndrome is the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs , symptoms , phenomena or characteristics that often occur together, so that the presence of one or more features alerts the physician to the possible presence of the others...
where the affected individual relies on environmental cues in order to accomplish goals or tasks. It is a disorder in personal autonomy that is influenced by individual psychological traits and can be helped through the intervention of other people. For example, adults diagnosed with ADHD have relied on special coaches to provide cues at appropriate times, helping them to make decisions about how to prioritize and order tasks, while patients with focal unilateral frontal lobe
Frontal lobe
The frontal lobe is an area in the brain of humans and other mammals, located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere and positioned anterior to the parietal lobe and superior and anterior to the temporal lobes...
lesions have been observed in environments such as a doctor's office, a lecture room, a car, a garden, an apartment they were visiting (where a range of activities were possible) and in a gift shop. Individuals with this syndrome can exhibit striking behaviour, as if compelled to respond to the situation in which they found themselves.