Update on apraxia

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 490-496

  Gross, Rachel Goldmann ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRAXIA; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; APRAXIAS; BEHAVIOR; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58149202446     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-008-0078-y     Document Type: Article

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