Apraxias - Etiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke.

29 Sep 2009 Poole JL, Sadek J, Haaland KY. Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. OBJECTIVE: To examine 1-handed shoe tying performance and whether cognitive deficits more associated with left or right hemisphere ... Read more...

Associations of postural knowledge and basic motor skill with dyspraxia in autism: implication for abnormalities in distributed connectivity and motor learning.

30 Aug 2009 Children with autism often have difficulty performing skilled movements. Praxis performance requires basic motor skill, knowledge of representations of the movement (mediated by parietal regions), and transcoding of these representations into ... Read more...

[Brain perfusion study in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and neuropsychiatric symptoms]

29 Apr 2009 Neuropsychiatric manifestations in 25% to 70% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), generally in young people. The variability in its clinical expression and lack of diagnostic methods have hindered the diagnosis of Central Nervous ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Apraxias - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. 29 Sep 2009
• Associations of postural knowledge and basic motor skill with dyspraxia in autism: implication for abnormalities in distributed connectivity and motor learning. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical reasoning: a video analysis of eye and limb movement abnormalities in a Parkinsonian syndrome. 2 Aug 2009
• Transcarpal migration of a broken Kirschner wire causing ulnar neurapraxia. 30 Jul 2009
• Pearls and oy-sters: reversible iatrogenic balint syndrome. 14 Jun 2009
• [Brain perfusion study in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and neuropsychiatric symptoms] 29 Apr 2009
• [Epilepsy with absence status: A new syndrome of idiopathic generalized epilepsy] 21 Apr 2009
• The neural basis of tool use. 5 Apr 2009
• Secondary creatine deficiency in ornithine delta-aminotransferase deficiency. 29 Mar 2009
• [Case report--Crossed aphasia] 30 Jan 2009
• Apraxia of speech and nonfluent aphasia: a new clinical marker for corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy. 29 Nov 2008
• Ocular dipping in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 29 Nov 2008
• Increase of frequency in deep brain stimulation relieves apraxia of eyelid opening in patients with Parkinson's disease: case report. 29 Nov 2008
• Grasping tools: effects of task and apraxia. 12 Oct 2008
• [Nocardia brain abscess: features, therapeutic strategies and outcome] 29 Sep 2008
• [To improve the daily care of Alzheimer patients in the general hospital] 30 Aug 2008
• Supranuclear pathways for facial movements. 30 Jul 2008
• Echopraxia in schizophrenia: possible mechanisms. 29 Jun 2008
• Deficient sequencing of pantomimes in apraxia. 9 Mar 2008
• Apraxia of eyelid opening after subthalamic deep brain stimulation may be caused by reduction of levodopa. Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Apraxias'

Definition: A group of cognitive disorders characterized by the inability to perform previously learned skills that cannot be attributed to deficits of motor or sensory function. The two major subtypes of this condition are ideomotor (see APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR) and ideational apraxia, which refers to loss of the ability to mentally formulate the processes involved with performing an action. For example, dressing apraxia may result from an inability to mentally formulate the act of placing clothes on the body. Apraxias are generally associated with lesions of the dominant PARIETAL LOBE and supramarginal gyrus. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp56-7)

Descriptor UI: D001072

Alternative terms: Apraxias; Dyspraxia; Dyspraxias; Apraxia; Apraxia, Articulatory; Apraxias, Articulatory; Articulatory Apraxia; Articulatory Apraxias; Dyspraxia, Articulatory; Articulatory Dyspraxia; Articulatory Dyspraxias; Dyspraxias, Articulatory; Apraxia, Developmental Verbal; Apraxias, Developmental Verbal; Developmental Verbal Apraxia; Developmental Verbal Apraxias; Verbal Apraxia, Developmental; Verbal Apraxias, Developmental; Apraxia, Facial-Oral; Apraxia, Facial Oral; Apraxias, Facial-Oral; Facial-Oral Apraxia; Facial-Oral Apraxias; Ideational Apraxia; Apraxia, Ideational; Apraxias, Ideational; Ideational Apraxias; Apraxia, Motor; Apraxias, Motor; Motor Apraxia; Motor Apraxias; Apraxia, Oral; Apraxias, Oral; Oral Apraxia; Oral Apraxias; Dyspraxia, Oral; Dyspraxias, Oral; Oral Dyspraxia; Oral Dyspraxias; Apraxia, Verbal; Apraxias, Verbal; Verbal Apraxia; Verbal Apraxias; Dyspraxia, Verbal; Dyspraxias, Verbal; Verbal Dyspraxia; Verbal Dyspraxias; Dressing Apraxia; Apraxia, Dressing; Apraxias, Dressing; Dressing Apraxias; Apraxia of Phonation; Phonation Apraxia; Phonation Apraxias; Apraxia, Gestural; Apraxias, Gestural; Gestural Apraxia; Gestural Apraxias;

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Tree Number: C10.597.606.881.350; C23.888.592.604.080; C23.888.592.604.882.350; F01.700.080; F01.700.875.350;

History Note: 2000(1966)