Apraxias in neurodegenerative dementias.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Apraxia is a state of inability to carry out a learned motor act in the absence of motor, sensory or cerebellar defect on command processed through the Praxis circuit. Breakdown in default networking is one of the early dysfunction in cortical dementias and result in perplexity, awkwardness, omission, substitution errors, toying behavior and unrecognizable gestures in response to command with voluntary reflex dissociation where, when unobserved patient will carry out reflex movements normally. Awareness into the organicity of these phenomenas will help in early diagnosis, which will help in initiating appropriate treatment and slowing down the progression of the disease.

Aims and objectives

The aim was to look for the various kinds of apraxias in patients with dem

SUBMITTER: Chandra SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4341309 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature