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Classification and Diagnosis of Apraxia

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Apraxia is a common clinical manifestation of vascular, traumatic, infective, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases of the brain, though there are often difficulties in its identification in neurological practice. This article presents a review of the current classification of apraxia and methods for its clinical diagnosis.

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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 115, No. 6, Iss. II, Neurology and Psychiatry in Elderly Patients, pp. 26–35, June, 2015.

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Grigor’eva, V.N. Classification and Diagnosis of Apraxia. Neurosci Behav Physi 47, 266–274 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-017-0392-4

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