There exist few clinical assessments for limb apraxia, a disorder of learned, purposeful action, that enable clinicians to distinguish pathological from normal variance in limb praxis performance. We describe a theoretically motivated, comprehensive assessment battery for limb apraxia and present control comparison scores for 16 older healthy normal individuals on subtests designed to distingui...

BACKGROUND Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by SETX mutations in 9q34 resulting in cerebellar ataxia in association with peripheral neuropathy, cerebellar atrophy on imaging, an elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) serum level, and occasional oculomotor apraxia. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and molecular findings of 7 patients with a clin...

THIS article is based on the assumptions that the bedside physician takes a conversational clinical history from the patient; that he hopes to make a diagnosis of aphasia quickly and with the minimum of special test methods and materials; and that he is interested chiefly in those aspects of aphasia analysis which can help him predict the lesion site, size, clinical outcome, and cause of the ap...

BACKGROUND Apraxia is a cognitive disorder that can occur after stroke. It prevents a person from carrying out a learned movement. Various interventions are used to treat apraxia but evidence of their benefit has been lacking. OBJECTIVES To determine which therapeutic interventions targeted at motor apraxia reduce disability. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Regi...

Apraxia is traditionally defined as a disorder of skilled movement that cannot be attributed to elementary sensorimotor deficit, aphasia or severe mental deterioration (De Renzi, 1989). This negative definition has led to integrate within the same framework a multitude of relatively different clinical manifestations, which have little in common with the kind of deficits to which it was original...

Indivíduos diagnosticados com Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) podem apresentar atraso no desenvolvimento repertório verbal, como nas respostas ecoicas. É comum na prática fonoaudiológica o uso de pistas multissensoriais para estabelecer e refinar ecoico. Devido ao contexto Pandemia da COVID-19 em 2021, Conselho Federal Fonoaudiologia (CFFa) determinou máscara cirúrgica ou N95 durante atend...

background: ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 (aoa1) shows early onset with autosomal recessive inheritance and is caused by a mutation in the aprataxin (aptx) gene encoding for the aptx protein. methods: in this study, a 7-year-old girl born of a first-cousin consanguineous marriage was described with early-onset progressive ataxia and aoa, with increased cholesterol concentration and decr...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...

Citation: Buchmann I, Jung R, Liepert J and Randerath J (2018) Assessing Anosognosia in Apraxia of Common Tool-Use With the VATA-NAT. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:119. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00119 In neurological patients, a lack of insight into their impairments can lead to possibly dangerous situations and non-compliance in rehabilitation therapy with worse rehabilitation outcomes as a result. T...