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Title Apraxia : the neuropsychology of action / edited by Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi and Kenneth M. Heilman
Published Hove : Psychology, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations
Series Brain damage, behaviour and cognition series
Brain damage, behaviour, and cognition
Contents Introduction to Limb Apraxia / Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Kenneth M. Heilman. -- Limb Apraxia: A Look Back / Kenneth M. Heilman, Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi. -- Handedness / Kenneth M. Heilman. -- A Cognitive Neuropsychological Model of Limb Praxis and Apraxia / Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Cynthia Ochipa, Kenneth M. Heilman. -- Conceptual Praxis / Anastasia M. Raymer, Cynthia Ochipa. -- Limb Praxis Assessment / Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Anastasia M. Raymer, Kenneth M. Heilman. -- Management and Treatment of Limb Apraxia / Lynn M. Maher, Cynthia Ochipa. -- Kinematic Approaches to the Study of Apraxic Disorders / Howard Poizner, Alma S. Merians, Mary Ann Clark [and others] -- Representations of Actions in Ideomotor Limb Apraxia: Clues from Motor Programming and Control / Deborah L. Harrington, Kathleen Y. Haaland. -- Disorders of Writing / Steven Z. Rapscak. -- Apraxia of Speech: Another Form of Praxis Disruption / Paula A. Square, Eric A. Roy, Ruth E. Martin. -- Subcortical Limb Apraxia / Bruce Crosson. -- Developmental Dyspraxia / Mary K. Morris. -- Naturalistic Action / Myrna F. Schwartz, Laurel J. Buxbaum
Summary The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a perspective on apraxia that considers a link between the pathology of apraxia and normal motor skill. In addition, it is the intention of the authors to provide information that is theoretically interesting as well as clinically applicable. The book is a collection of papers by various authors working in the area of apraxia, almost exclusively with limb aparaxia specifically. Beginning with Hugo Liepman's work of the late 19th century, a cognitive neuropsychological model of limb apraxia is reviewed, the use of new technologies that are
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Apraxia.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Extremities (Anatomy) -- Movements
Apraxias
Cognitive Science
Extremities -- anatomy & histology
Movement -- physiology
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Apraxia
Cognitive neuroscience
Apraxie
Bewegungsstörung
Gliedmaßen
Apraxie.
Neuropsychologie.
Apraxie.
Mouvement -- Physiologie.
Gliedmassen.
Form Electronic book
Author Rothi, Leslie J. (Leslie Janine), 1949-
Heilman, Kenneth M., 1938-
ISBN 9781317774860
1317774868