ReviewJournal of neurology2012
Diagnosis and treatment of upper limb apraxia.
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- The Neurocognitive Bases of Meaningful Intransitive Gestures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Neuropsychological Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Verum versus sham tDCS in the treatment of stroke-induced apraxia: study protocol of the randomized controlled trial RAdiCS -"Rehabilitating (stroke-induced) Apraxia with direct Current Stimulation".Neurological research and practice · 2020Trial
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- Assessing Limb Apraxia in Quebec: Normative Study of the Brief Battery for the Evaluation of Praxis in Healthy French-Speaking Adults.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2026Article
- Praxis function in the ADL Observation Scale: Spanish cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties.PloS one · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties and clinical usability of the cognition in daily life scale in patients with acquired brain injury in clinical care settings.Clinical rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Validation of Chinese version of the familiar tools use test for assessing limb apraxia in stroke patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
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- Interventions to improve the occupational performance of people with post stroke upper limb apraxia - A systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2024Review
- The Impact of Upper Limb Apraxia on General and Domain-Specific Self-Efficacy in Post-Stroke Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluation Tools Developed for Rett Syndrome.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Gesture meaning modulates the neural correlates of effector-specific imitation deficits in left hemisphere stroke.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2023Article
- Multicomponent Educational-Rehabilitation Approach in Rehabilitation of Patients After Stroke.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2022Article
- The impact of apraxia and neglect on early rehabilitation outcome after stroke.Neurological research and practice · 2022Article
- Proposing a new short screening test for upper limb apraxia.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2022Article
- Improved gesturing in left-hemispheric stroke by right inferior parietal theta burst stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Treating limb apraxia via action semantics: a preliminary study.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Best Practices in the Clinical Management of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Syndrome: A Consensus Statement of the CurePSP Centers of Care.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Limb Apraxia: a Disorder of Learned Skilled Movement.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2019Review
- Reliability and Validity of the Comprehensive Limb and Oral Apraxia Test: Standardization and Clinical Application in Korean Patients With Stroke.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Upper limb apraxia, a disorder of higher motor cognition, is a common consequence of left-hemispheric stroke. Contrary to common assumption, apraxic deficits not only manifest themselves during clinical testing but also have delirious effects on the patients' everyday life and rehabilitation. Thus, a reliable diagnosis and efficient treatment of upper limb apraxia is important to improve the patients' prognosis after stroke. Nevertheless, to date, upper limb apraxia is still an underdiagnosed and ill-treated entity. Based on a systematic literature search, this review summarizes the current tools of diagnosis and treatment strategies for upper limb apraxia. It furthermore provides clinicians with graded recommendations. In particular, a short screening test for apraxia, and a more comprehensive diagnostic apraxia test for clinical use are recommended. Although currently only a few randomized controlled studies investigate the efficacy of different apraxia treatments, the gesture training suggested by Smania and colleagues can be recommended for the therapy of apraxia, the effects of which were shown to extend to activities of daily living and to persist for at least 2 months after completion of the training. This review aims at directing the reader's attention to the ecological relevance of apraxia. Moreover, it provides clinicians with appropriate tools for the reliable diagnosis and effective treatment of apraxia. Nevertheless, this review also highlights the need for further research into how to improve diagnosis of apraxia based on neuropsychological models and to develop new therapeutic strategies.
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