Abstract Background Cognitive screening tests (CSTs) are crucial to neuropsychological
diagnostics, and thus need to be featured by robust psychometric and diagnostic properties …

Limb apraxia is a heterogeneous disorder of skilled action and tool use that has long
perplexed clinicians and researchers. It occurs after damage to various loci in a densely …

Previous studies showed that imitation of finger and hand/arm gestures could be
differentially impaired after brain damage. However, so far, the interaction between gesture …

Background: Standardized praxis assessments with modern, empirically validated screening
tests have substantially improved clinical evaluation of apraxia in patients with stroke …

Introduction Stroke is the second leading cause of death in Europe. In the case of stroke
survival (almost 70%), only 25% of patients recover completely, while the remaining 75 …

Objective: Limb apraxia is a common early sign of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is thought
to occur specifically in early-onset (before the age of 65) AD. The Dementia Apraxia Test …

Frequently left brain damage (LBD) leads to limb apraxia, a disorder that can affect tool-use.
Despite its impact on daily life, classical tests examining the pantomime of tool-use and …

Mixed findings characterize studies in Parkinson's disease (PD): some studies indicate a
relationship between physical impairments and the ability to mentally represent the body …

It has been shown that exercise positively affects cognitive abilities, such as frontal functions
and long-term memory processes. We tried to understand whether different exercises (ie, an …

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In part because of their striking clinical presentations, disorders of
higher nervous system function figured prominently in the early history of neurology. These …