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Assessing the treatment effects in apraxia of speech: introduction and evaluation of the Modified Diadochokinesis Test [PDF]
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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The impact of apraxia and neglect on early rehabilitation outcome after stroke
Background This study aims to characterize the impact of apraxia and visuospatial neglect on stroke patients’ cognitive and functional outcomes during early rehabilitation.
S. Latarnik +5 more
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Tool use and related errors in ideational apraxia: The quantitative simulation of patient error profiles [PDF]
The behaviour of ideational apraxic patients on simple tasks involving multiple objects is typically marked by a variety of errors. While some of these errors concern the sequential organisation of action through time, many relate to the misuse of, or ...
Richard P. Cooper, Cooper, Richard P.
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Ideomotor Apraxia: A multi-study lesion mapping perspective [PDF]
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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Gesture deficits and apraxia in schizophrenia. [PDF]
Aberrant performance of skilled action has long been noted in schizophrenia and relatedly, recent reports have demonstrated impaired use, performance, and perception of hand gestures in this group.
Stegmayer, Katharina Deborah Lena +3 more
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Assessment of Nonverbal and Verbal Apraxia in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
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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THE REPRESENTATION OF OBJECTS IN APRAXIA: FROM ACTION EXECUTION TO ERROR AWARENESS
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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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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Reviewing the limb apraxia concept: From definition to cognitive neuropsychological models
Apraxia is a disorder of learned skilled movements, in the absence of elementary motor or sensory deficits and general cognitive impairment such as inattention to commands, object-recognition deficits or poor oral comprehension.
Joana Mantovani-Nagaoka +1 more
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Limb apraxia and the 'affordance competition hypothesis'
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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