Anterior-cingulate damage causes inability to speak, move, or be conscious {akinetic mutism}.
People can lose sense qualities and voluntary motion {catalepsy}|. Body stays in one position.
Muscles can become rigid in one position {catatonia}|.
Children can get polio {infantile paralysis}|.
People can have paralyzed limbs before amputation and stay paralyzed after {learned paralysis} [Ramachandran, 2004].
People can be conscious but unable to move or express reports {locked-in syndrome}| [Bauby, 1997] [Celesia, 1997] [Feldman, 1971].
Brain or peripheral-nerve damage can cause motor-function loss {paralysis}|. Hysteria can have paralysis. Paralysis does not affect emotions or consciousness.
People can be unable to move arms and legs {paraplegia}|.
Syphilis, encephalitis, brain damage, or cerebral arteriosclerosis can cause general paralysis and organic psychosis {paresis}.
Virus {poliovirus} can paralyze by destroying motor nerve cells {polio}| {poliomyelitis}.
Paralysis can alternate with muscle spasms {spastic paralysis}.
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