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Possible Causes

Alzheimer Disease

Progressive apraxia of speech presents without true language abnormalities, usually seen with frontal lesions and not associated with AD pathology. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Corticobasal syndrome, with asymmetric Parkinsonism, dystonia, and apraxia, is increasingly recognized as a presentation of Alzheimer pathology. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We report the case of a 51-year-old woman who was admitted at a Psychiatric Day Hospital presenting with depressive symptoms, visuospatial deficits, apraxia, and minor memory [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Stroke

Apraxia of speech is a communication disorder that can affect stroke patients. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] with or without oral apraxia. [doi.org]

While spasms of this muscle constitute the hallmark of disease, other motor manifestations include increased spontaneous blinking and apraxia of eyelid opening. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Dementia

Other symptoms are difficulty naming objects or people (anomia), rambling speech, difficulty performing certain activities (apraxia), or failure to recognize certain objects [web.archive.org]

The presence of one or more additional cognitive disturbances, including aphasia, apraxia, or agnosia, is required to make the diagnosis according to DSM-IV-TR criteria. [web.archive.org]

[…] characterized predominantly by memory loss, accompanied by impairment in other cognitive functions or "domain," such as language function ( aphasia ), skilled motor functions (apraxia [my.clevelandclinic.org]

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Cerebral Thrombosis

Abstract Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a severe multifactorial condition with various clinical manifestations that may include headache, papilledema, seizures, focal deficits, coma and death. The mortality rate of untreated CVT is up to 50%, but it drops to 10% when CVT is properly treated. Prevention of CVT is[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Dialysis Dementia

Abstract Six maintenance hemodialysis patients with dialysis dementia (severe mental deterioration, speech disturbances, apraxia, facial grimacing, and myoclonus) were studied [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Their illness was characterized by an insidious onset of mental deterioration, speech disturbance, apraxia, and myoclonus. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] neurologic signs: stuttering, stammering, dysnomia, hypofluency, mutism, seizures–generalized tonic-clonic, focal, or multifocal, or motor disturbances–myoclonic jerks, motor apraxia [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

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Vascular Dementia

Visual constructive apraxia is very common in dementia and impairment in these abilities can provide clinical information for differential diagnosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] ability to learn new information or to recall previously learned information) One or more of the following cognitive disturbances: (a) aphasia (language disturbance) (b) apraxia [strokecenter.org]

[…] progressive worsening of memory deficit and progressive worsening of memory and other cognitive functions such as language (transcortical sensory aphasia), motor skills (apraxia [strokecenter.org]

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Subdural Hematoma

[…] age 51.0 females (n 8) mean age SD (yrs) 53.1 7.1 median age 55.5 leading symptoms (multiple) headache 15 somnolence 4 coma 1 seizure 2 mydriasis 1 hemiparesis 3 ataxia 2 apraxia [doi.org]

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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

INTRODUCTION: Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), described by Hakim and Adams in 1965, is characterized by gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, and dementia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, and dementia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

True ataxia and weakness are absent and the gait disturbance is referred to as gait apraxia. [patient.info]

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Anterior Cerebral Artery Occlusion

Callosal vessel occlusion: Apraxia of the left side. [notes.medicosnotes.com]

23 patients were those of anterior cerebral artery syndromes: hemiparesis (74%), urinary incontinence (39%), forced grasping (39%), mutism (30%), indifference (26%) and apraxia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Apraxia of gait is apraxia related to walking and may look like an unusually wide walk with short, flat steps. [healthline.com]

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Cerebral Embolism

Example 2: When your clinician documents that the patient had conditions like apraxia, anosmia, gaze toward the side of the embolism, urinary incontinence, or grasp or suckling [supercoder.com]

Syndromes Symptoms and Signs Syndrome Contralateral hemiparesis (maximal in the leg), urinary incontinence, apathy, confusion, poor judgment, mutism, grasp reflex, gait apraxia [merckmanuals.com]

Cortical syndromes include anomia, alexia apraxia, prosopagnosia (depending on which hemisphere is involved) and related temporal-occipital, parietal-occipital disturbances [brainmind.com]

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Parietal Lobe Tumor

Apraxia is an acquired disorder of motor planning, but is not caused by incoordination, sensory loss, or failure to comprehend simple commands (which can be tested by asking [slideshare.net]

Apraxias are generally associated with lesions of the dominant PARIETAL LOBE and supramarginal gyrus. (From Adams et al. 20. [sentencedict.com]

Lesions that affect the premotor area may produce apraxia and mild rigidity but no loss of strength, whereas those that affect the motor cortex can produce contralateral weakness [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Huntington's Disease

(The so-called cortical dementias primarily involve the cerebral cortex and are associated with aphasia, agnosia, apraxia, and severe amnesia.) [emedicine.medscape.com]

A diagnostic test for apraxia in stroke patient: internal consistency and diagnostic value. Clin. Neuropsychol. 13,182 ( 1999 ). [dx.doi.org]

The Apraxia Test: consists of two subtests assessing the ability to use objects or pantomime use and the ability to imitate gestures [40]. [dx.doi.org]

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Subacute Combined Degeneration of Spinal Cord

Damage to this lobe, located posterior to the central sulcus, leads to forms of apraxia, the inability to perform purposeful actions. [britannica.com]

apraxia (difficulty in creating or copying two- or three-dimensional forms), and sensory competition, or sensory extinction, which is an inability to recognize two stimuli [britannica.com]

The right parietal lobe is concerned with visuospatial orientation, and damage typically leads to deficits such as dressing apraxia (inability to put on clothes), constructional [britannica.com]

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Non-24 Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder

Ideomotor apraxia Impaired balance Joint pain Kinetic apraxia Limb apraxia Loss of muscle coordination (ataxia) Menstrual irregularities Muscle pain Suicidal thoughts Verbal [psychology.wikia.org]

It can also include apraxia (a motor disorder that causes difficulties with performing tasks or movements when asked) nausea, cognitive dysfunction, impaired balance, joint [countingsheep.net]

apraxia Weight gain Prevalence Edit While both sighted and blind people are diagnosed with Non-24, the disorder affects more totally blind individuals than sighted. [psychology.wikia.org]

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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

During the next few weeks, the patient developed cognitive impairment, apraxia, visual hallucinations, and myoclonus. He met diagnostic criteria for CJD. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] evaluation, a 'cortical ribboning' pattern on DWI and positive RT-QuIC was integrated with performance on neurobehavioral exam (i.e. alien limb phenomenon, unilateral ideomotor apraxia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Besides amnesia and impaired attention (89% each), frontal lobe syndrome (75%), aphasia (63%), and apraxia (57%) were the most common neuropsychological deficits. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Posterior Cerebral Artery Occlusion with Infarction

It is a triad of visual simultanagnosia, optic ataxia, and apraxia of gaze, which are characterized as follows: Visual simultanagnosia - Implies an inability to examine a [emedicine.medscape.com]

Apraxia of ocular movements is often present with bilateral lesions. [notes.medicosnotes.com]

[…] the entire picture Optic ataxia - Implies a loss of hand-eye coordination such that reaching or performing a motor task under visual guidance is clumsy and uncoordinated Apraxia [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Aphasia

There are two main types of speech apraxia: acquired apraxia of speech and developmental apraxia of speech. [strokenetwork.org]

Aphasia, apraxia of speech and oral apraxia are communication disorders that can result from a stroke. [strokeassociation.org]

They also presented with progressive apraxia that began at the initial stages. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Classic Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Syndrome

However, muscle atrophy, weakness, evidence of denervation on electromyography, vertical gaze palsy, parkinsonism, gait freezing, aphasia, speech apraxia, or dementia was [okayama.pure.elsevier.com]

Additional ocular findings include photophobia, blepharospasm, and eyelid opening apraxia ( 2 ). [webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu]

PSP-PNFA is characterized by speech anomalies (apraxia of speech, agrammatism, phonemic errors). Motor disturbances may occur later. [orpha.net]

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Primary Progressive Aphasia

We report three patients in the initial stage of lvPPA who subsequently developed apraxia in the middle stage and developed clinically evident semantic memory deficits in [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Deficits within the frontal-lobe speech networks are linked to motor speech profiles of the nonfluent variant of PPA and progressive apraxia of speech. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

KEYWORDS: Amyloid PET imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Primary progressive aphasia; Progressive apraxia of speech; Volumetric based morphometry [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

and (v) apraxia of speech. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Clinical features of the present case were asymmetrical apraxia, parkinsonism, memory disturbance, disorientation and left limb myoclonus with a 5-year history. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In variants of PSP presenting with focal cortical syndromes, such as frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal syndrome and apraxia of speech, there is greater cortical pathology [oadoi.org]

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Oculomotor Apraxia

Oculomotor apraxia Other names Cogan ocular motor apraxia or saccadic initiation failure Specialty Ophthalmology Oculomotor apraxia ( OMA ), is the absence or defect of controlled [en.wikipedia.org]

Included in this group are AT, ataxia-telangiectasia-like disorder (ATLD), ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA 1), ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA 2), and [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia is an autosomal recessive inherited disease characterized by childhood onset of progressive cerebellar ataxia, oculomotor apraxia, and progressive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Ataxia Telangiectasia

ATLD should be considered in patients with ocular apraxia and ataxia in infancy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) typically presents with early-onset progressive cerebellar ataxia, oculomotor apraxia and later, oculo-cutaneous telangiectasia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

It is characterized by early-onset, progressive cerebellar ataxia, oculomotor apraxia, choreoathetosis, conjunctival telangiectasias, immunodeficiency, and an increased risk [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Ataxia

KEYWORDS: ataxia; cerebellar; movement disorders; neuropathy; oculomotor apraxia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

KEYWORDS: AOA type 4; Ataxia; PNKP; oculomotor apraxia; saccades [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Definition of Apraxia Apraxia comes from the Greek a-, again meaning without, and -praxis, which implies some sort of action. [study.com]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia 8

Abbreviations: SCAR-Spinocerebellar ataxia; AOA-Ataxia oculomotor apraxia; EAOH-Early onset ataxia with oculomotor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia; CoQ10D-Coenzyme Q10 deficiency [centogene.com]

(AOA1), and senataxin in ataxia with oculomotor apraxia (AOA2). [orpha.net]

Aicardi J, Barbosa C, Andermann E, Andermann F, Morcos R, Ghanem Q, Fukuyama Y, Awaya Y, Moe P (1988) Ataxia-ocular motor apraxia: a syndrome mimicking ataxia-telangiectasia [link.springer.com]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia

Oculomotor apraxia is a common but inconsistent finding, found in about 50% of patients; hence this disorder is sometimes referred to as 'ataxia-oculomotor apraxia-2' (AOA2 [diseaseinfosearch.org]

Spinocerebellar Ataxia 18 Clinical Characteristics Ocular Features: Ocular signs in SCAR18 include nystagmus, oculomotor apraxia, and optic atrophy. [disorders.eyes.arizona.edu]

(AOA1), and senataxin in ataxia with oculomotor apraxia (AOA2). [digital.csic.es]

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Adult-Onset Autosomal Recessive Cerebellar Ataxia

Oculomotor apraxia, which is loss of eye movement control, is one of the most noticeable symptoms. [diseaseinfosearch.org]

Abbreviations: SCAR-Spinocerebellar ataxia; AOA-Ataxia oculomotor apraxia; EAOH-Early onset ataxia with oculomotor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia; CoQ10D-Coenzyme Q10 deficiency [centogene.com]

Nystagmus (on lateral gaze) No ocular apraxia Nystagmus (on lateral gaze) No ocular apraxia Nystagmus (on lateral gaze) No ocular apraxia Patient II1 II2 II3 II4 Sex Female [academic.oup.com]

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Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare pediatric brain tumor. A 16-year-old female patient presented to the clinic with complaints of multiple episodes of generalized tonic clonic seizures, nystagmus, and weakness on the left side of the body for 3 weeks. She had similar symptoms, waxing and[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Marchiafava Bignami Disease

[…] dementia, lack of initiative, and psychomotor retardation here ascribed to extracallosal damage, he showed a number of symptoms of hemispheric disconnection such as left-sided apraxia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Striking features were left apraxia caused by two lesions in the rostral area, and left hemidyslexia related to a large splenial lesion demonstrated by MRI. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Aphasia and ideomotor apraxia, although less frequent, seem to be more specific. [symptoma.com]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia 18

Genotype-phenotype correlations in early onset ataxia with ocular motor apraxia and hypoalbuminaemia. Brain 2011;134(Pt 5):1387–1399. 3. [synapse.koreamed.org]

Ataxias with DNA repair defects ARCA with oculomotor apraxia: ARCA with oculomotor apraxia (OMA), known as ataxias with oculomotor apraxia (AOA), are characterized by cerebellar [wjgnet.com]

Le Ber I, Moreira MC, Rivaud‐Pechoux S et al. (2003) Cerebellar ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1: clinical and genetic studies. Brain 126: 2761. [els.net]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 17

Affiliated tissues include spinal cord, cerebellum and eye, and related phenotypes are oculomotor apraxia and synophrys OMIM : 57 Autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia [malacards.org]

Ataxias with DNA repair defects ARCA with oculomotor apraxia: ARCA with oculomotor apraxia (OMA), known as ataxias with oculomotor apraxia (AOA), are characterized by cerebellar [wjgnet.com]

Ataxia telangiectasia–like disorders This group includes the following disorders: ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA1), ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2 [emedicine.medscape.com]

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