• Gait apraxia evaluation in normal pressure hydrocephalus using inertial sensors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a neurological condition with gait apraxia signs from its early manifestation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study is aimed to test the hypothesis that wearable motion sensors provide valid measures to manage iNPH patients with gait apraxia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For the first time in 1977 Miller-Fisher thoroughly described iNPH gait alterations using the term "gait apraxia" [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Considering that the classical definition of apraxia of gait is " loss of ability to properly use lower limbs in the act of walking which cannot be accounted for by demonstrable sensory impairment or motor weakness" [ 6 ], also today this term represents a broadly accepted definition of iNPH gait alterations in literature. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The patient is older and presents with progressive gait apraxia, incontinence, and dementia. (medscape.com)
  • Any disease of these areas can cause apraxia, although stroke and dementia are the most common causes. (medscape.com)
  • Apraxia is one of the best localizing signs of the mental status examination and, unlike aphasia, also predicts disability in patients with stroke or dementia. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, given the neuropsychological evidence that left posterior lesions give rise to "apraxia," it would be of interest to find out whether this activity would be more prominent in the left hemisphere. (jneurosci.org)
  • Interestingly, in my clinical experience, I've noticed that it's not just moderately language impaired children who present with difficulty playing this game. (smartspeechtherapy.com)
  • Persistence of apraxia of speech after 12 months is associated with larger volume of the left-hemispheric stroke involving the Broca area. (medscape.com)
  • Patients who have aphasia but who do not have coexisting apraxia can live independently, take the bus or subway, and lead a relatively normal life, while a patient with significant limb apraxia is likely to remain dependent. (medscape.com)
  • Interestingly, this condition has not been recognized for that long, in comparison to many of the more familiar diagnoses that are frequ. (speechpathology.com)
  • Conceptual apraxia is defined as a loss of knowledge about tools and the movements associated with their use. (medscape.com)
  • 4-6 ⇓ ⇓ The failure of postnatal brain growth is accompanied by loss of communication skills, including learned words and nuanced babble, loss of purposeful hand skills, and apraxia. (neurology.org)
  • Apraxia, one of the most important and least understood major behavioral neurology syndromes, robs patients of the ability to use tools. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, patients with apraxia are unlikely to perform activities of daily living well. (medscape.com)
  • Apraxia of speech is now recognized as an articulation disorder distinct from dysarthria and aphasia. (medscape.com)
  • Interestingly, I did not use my empathizing skills to work people out. (neuroclastic.com)
  • Apraxia has a neurologic cause that localizes fairly well to the left inferior parietal lobule, the frontal lobes (especially the premotor cortex, supplementary motor area, and convexity), or the corpus callosum. (medscape.com)
  • Heilman defined apraxia in negative terms, characterizing it as "a disorder of skilled movement not caused by weakness, akinesia, deafferentation, abnormal tone or posture, movement disorders such as tremors or chorea, intellectual deterioration, poor comprehension, or uncooperativeness. (medscape.com)
  • We report on a patient with ideomotor apraxia (IMA) and limb-kinetic apraxia (LKA) following cerebral infarct, which demonstrated neural tract injuries by diffusion tensor tractography (DTT). (semcs.net)
  • Patients who have aphasia but who do not have coexisting apraxia can live independently, take the bus or subway, and lead a relatively normal life, while a patient with significant limb apraxia is likely to remain dependent. (medscape.com)
  • People with disabilities including Autism, Apraxia of speech, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome may also find sign language beneficial for communicating. (healthyhearingclub.net)
  • My son, Adam was diagnosed with a feeding disorder at age one, and Autism , SPD , and Apraxia at age two. (singingthroughtherain.net)
  • Apraxia of speech is now recognized as an articulation disorder distinct from dysarthria and aphasia. (medscape.com)
  • [ 2 ] To simplify matters, apraxia can be considered a form of a motor agnosia. (medscape.com)
  • Similarly to controls, patients performed more exploratory movements with the left hand, which resulted to be impaired in object recognition, suggesting that tactile apraxia was not the cause of this tactile agnosia. (walshmedicalmedia.com)
  • Heilman defined apraxia in negative terms, characterizing it as "a disorder of skilled movement not caused by weakness, akinesia, deafferentation, abnormal tone or posture, movement disorders such as tremors or chorea, intellectual deterioration, poor comprehension, or uncooperativeness. (medscape.com)
  • While considered a disorder affecting speech motor control, stuttering is a distinct disorder from dysarthrias, in that there is no underlying weakness or paralysis of the articulatory musculature, and apraxia of speech (AOS), in that stuttering involves the interruptions of flow described above with otherwise intact productions of intended sounds, whereas AOS involves uncoordinated movements, distorted productions, omissions, and substitutions of sounds. (frontiersin.org)