Repetitive behaviors are not an uncommon part of human experience, but not all repetitive actions serve the same purpose or carry the same meaning. Two types of behaviors that are often confused are ...

Stereotypic movement disorder is a motor disorder that develops in childhood, typically before grade school, and involves repetitive, purposeless movement. Examples of stereotypic movements include ...

Machine learning algorithms showed that as mice foraged for food, they strung together a finite number of stereotyped behavioral sequences like building blocks, interspersing them with spontaneous ...