Exploring evidence-based practice by occupational therapists when working with people with apraxia [PDF]
, 2008 Short Report Evidence in the literature supports a number of interventions that occupational therapists may utilise when working with people with apraxia, although there is no gold standard approach.
Roden, P, Tempest, S
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A deficit of spatial remapping in constructional apraxia after right-hemisphere stroke [PDF]
, 2010 This Article is provided by the Brunel Open Access Publising Fund - Copyright @ 2010 Oxford University PressConstructional apraxia refers to the inability of patients to copy accurately drawings or three-dimensional constructions. It is a common disorder
Russell, C +11 more
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Assessing the treatment effects in apraxia of speech: introduction and evaluation of the Modified Diadochokinesis Test [PDF]
, 2011 Background: The number of reliable and valid instruments to measure the effects of therapy in apraxia of speech (AoS) is limited. Aims: To evaluate the newly developed Modified Diadochokinesis Test (MDT), which is a task to assess the effects of rate and
Reinders-Messelink, Heleen A. +16 more
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Assessment of Nonverbal and Verbal Apraxia in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's Disease, 2015 Objective. To assess the presence of nonverbal and verbal apraxia in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and analyze the correlation between these conditions and patient age, education, duration of disease, and PD stage, as well as evaluate the ...
Monia Presotto +3 more
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Defective neural motor speech mappings as a source for apraxia of speech : evidence from a quantitative neural model of speech processing [PDF]
, 2011 This unique resource reviews research evidence pertaining to best practice in the clinical assessment of established areas such as intelligibility and physiological functioning, as well as introducing recently developed topics such as conversational ...
Miller, N., Lowit, Anja, Kroger, Bernd
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Apraxia and motor dysfunction in corticobasal syndrome. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is characterized by multifaceted motor system dysfunction and cognitive disturbance; distinctive clinical features include limb apraxia and visuospatial dysfunction. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been
James R Burrell +4 more
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Ideomotor Apraxia: A multi-study lesion mapping perspective [PDF]
, 2022 openIdeomotor Apraxia is seen as a deficit of skilled movement in the absence of motor impairment. It is commonly associated with left hemisphere damage due to cerebrovascular damage such as stroke, tumors, or neurodegenerative diseases like corticobasal
PRABHU, SWATHI SASHI
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Cortex, 2018 Since the classic papers of Kleist, Mayer Gross, and Critchley, constructional apraxia (CA) has been considered to be a typical sign of a parietal lobe lesion, and as a precious tool to appreciate the spatial abilities subserved by this lobe. However, the development of more sophisticated neuropsychologic models and methods of investigation has ...
Gainotti, Guido, Trojano, Luigi
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THE REPRESENTATION OF OBJECTS IN APRAXIA: FROM ACTION EXECUTION TO ERROR AWARENESS
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Apraxia is a well-known syndrome characterized by the sufferer’s inability to perform routine gestures. In an attempt to understand the syndrome better, various different theories have been developed and a number of classifications of different subtypes ...
LOREDANA eCANZANO +8 more
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Limb apraxia and the 'affordance competition hypothesis'
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Limb apraxia, a disorder of higher order motor control, has long been a challenge for clinical assessment and understanding (Leiguarda and Marsden 2000).The deficits originally described in limb apraxia (Liepmann 1908) have been classified by the nature ...
Elisabeth eRounis, Glyn eHumphreys
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