A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to memory difficulties, visual hallucinations, and slowly progressing motor difficulties in the limbs. A clinical examination revealed bradykinesia, gait disturbance, left-side-dominant rigidity, ideomotor apraxia, dressing apraxia, left-sided spatial agnosia, impaired visuospatial ability, and executive dysfunction. Her symptoms were unrespo...

A 56-year-old right-handed man suffered from progressive apraxia of speech (AOS), characterized by agrammatism and buccofacial apraxia. He also became mute at the later stages of the disease progression. At autopsy, the left precentral gyrus, pars opercularis, and hippocampus showed severe atrophy. Pick bodies and Pick cells were observed. In this report, we also review previous case reports of...

Introdução. A Apraxia de Fala na Infância caracteriza déficit no planejamento e programação dos movimentos da fala, necessitando um diagnóstico apropriado para que assim seja possível tratamento as crianças acometidas desenvolvam suas habilidades comunicativas através fala. Objetivo. Devido à importantes relações elementos musicais em intervenções desordens linguagem especialmente entonação mel...

Mastering the skills of reading and writing encourages intensive lexical development that enriches ability to speak write. The presence a delay or an identified speech and/or language disorder at early age affects outcome learning these skills. aim this paper is familiarize readers with characteristics apraxia draw attention difficulties children exhibit in process read Apraxia represents diffi...

Crossed aphasia refers to language disturbance due to right-hemisphere lesions in right-handed individuals, while magnetic apraxia is described as 'forced grasping and groping' caused by lesions in the contralateral frontal lobe. This is a case report of a 70-year-old right handed woman who suffered from crossed transcortical motor aphasia and left hand magnetic apraxia due to right anterior ce...

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Gesch...