Spared musical abilities in a conductor with global aphasia and ideomotor apraxia.

Ideomotor apraxia without aphasia and aphasia without apraxia: the anatomical support for a double dissociation.

This study aimed to verify the existence of a double aphasia/apraxia dissociation. Apraxic patients without aphasia and aphasic patients without apraxia were included in a consecutive series of patients with cortical or subcortical CT documented vascular lesions in the left hemisphere. Of 699 patients, 10 were found to be apraxic but not aphasic and 149 aphasic but not apraxic. These findings i...

The rehabilitation of limb apraxia: a study in left-brain-damaged patients.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a rehabilitative training program for patients with limb apraxia. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Neurologic rehabilitation unit of a university hospital. PATIENTS Thirteen patients with acquired brain injury and limb apraxia (lasting more than 2 months) as a result of lesions involving the left cerebral hemisphere. Patients were assig...

Limb apraxia and aphasia.

Right orbitofrontal tumor with pedophilia symptom and constructional apraxia sign.

BACKGROUND Orbitofrontal abnormalities are associated with poor impulse control, altered sexual behavior, and sociopathy. OBJECTIVE To describe a patient with acquired pedophilia and a right orbitofrontal tumor who was unable to inhibit sexual urges despite preserved moral knowledge. DESIGN Case report. RESULTS The patient displayed impulsive sexual behavior with pedophilia, marked constr...

Current Concepts of Cerebrovascular Disease — Stroke The Evaluation of Aphasia

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...