Diagnosis and treatment of upper limb apraxia

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1269-1283

  Dovern, A ^a,b   Fink, G R ^a,b   Weiss, P H ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor cognition; Neuropsychology; Neurorehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

APRAXIA; APRAXIA SCREEN OF TULIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLOGNE APRAXIA SCREENING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIRECT TRAINING; EXPLORATIVE TRAINING; FLORIDA APRAXIA BATTERY EXTENDED AND REVISED SYDNEY; GESTURE; GESTURE TRAINING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIMB DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STRATEGY TRAINING; TEST OF UPPER LIMB APRAXIA; UPPER LIMB APRAXIA; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

APRAXIAS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; GESTURES; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84864280208     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-6336-y     Document Type: Review

References (74)

1. Alexander MP, Baker E, Naeser MA, Kaplan E, Palumbo C (1992) Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical dimensions of ideomotor apraxia. Brain 115:87-107
2. Almeida QJ, Black SE, Roy EA (2002) Screening for apraxia: a short assessment for stroke patients. Brain Cogn 48:253-258 (Pubitemid 34267447)
3. Bartolo A, Cubelli R, Della Sala S, Drei S, Marchetti C (2001) Double dissociation between meaningful and meaningless gesture reproduction in apraxia. Cortex 37:696-699 (Pubitemid 34070648)
4. Bartolo A, Cubelli R, Della Sala S (2008) Cognitive approach to the assessment of limb apraxia. Clin Neuropsych 22:27-45 (Pubitemid 351202383)
5. Basso A, Capitani E, Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Spinnler H (1987) Recovery from ideomotor apraxia. A study on acute stroke patients. Brain 110:747-760 (Pubitemid 17081173)
6. Bjorneby ER, Reinvang IR (1985) Acquiring and maintaining self-care skills after stroke. The predictive value of apraxia. Scand J Rehabil Med 17:75-80 (Pubitemid 15064308)
7. Bonita R, Solomon N, Broad JB (1997) Prevalence of stroke and stroke-related disability. Estimates from the Auckland stroke studies. Stroke 10:1898-1902 (Pubitemid 27458992)
8. Borod JC, Fitzpatrick PM, Helm-Estabrooks N, Goodglass H (1989) The relationship between limb apraxia and the spontaneous use of communicative gesture in aphasia. Brain Cogn 10: 121-131
9. Buxbaum LJ, Haal KY, Hallett M, Wheaton L, Heilman KM, Rodriguez A, Rothi LJG (2008) Treatment of limb apraxia: moving forward to improve action. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 87:149-161
10. Cappa SF, Benke T, Clarke S, Rossi B, Stemmer B, van Heugten CM (2005) EFNS guidelines on cognitive rehabilitation: report of an EFNS task force. Eur J Neurol 12:665-680 (Pubitemid 41297828)
11. Code C, Gaunt C (1986) Treating severe speech and limb apraxia in a case of aphasia. British J Disord Commun 21:11-20 (Pubitemid 16079086)
12. Coelho CA, Duffy RJ (1987) The relationship of the acquisition of manual signs to severity of aphasia: a training study. Brain Lang 31:328-345 (Pubitemid 17138326)
13. Cubelli R, Trentini P, Montagna CG (1991) Re-education of gestural communication in a case of chronic global aphasia and limb apraxia. Cognit Neuropsychol 8:369-380
14. Cubelli R, Marchetti M, Boscolo G, Della Sala S (2000) Cognition in action: testing a model of limb apraxia. Brain Cogn 44:144-165
15. Daumüller M, Goldenberg G (2010) Therapy to improve gestural expression in aphasia: a controlled clinical trial. Clin Rehabil 24:55-65
16. De Renzi E, Pieczuro A, Vignolo LA (1968) Ideational apraxia: a quantitative study. Neuropsychologia 6:41-52
17. De Renzi E, Motti F, Nichelli P (1980) Imitating gestures. A quantitative approach to ideomotor apraxia. Arch Neurol 37:6-10 (Pubitemid 10160401)
18. Demeurisse G, Demol O, Robaye E (1980) Motor evaluation in vascular hemiplegia. Eur Neurol 19:382-389 (Pubitemid 10053895)
19. Dobigny-Roman N, Dieudonne-moinet B, Tortrat D, Verny M, Forette B (1998) Ideomotor apraxia test: a new test of imitation of gestures for elderly people. Eur J Neurol 5:571-578 (Pubitemid 28528811)
20. Donkervoort M, Dekker J, van den Ende E, Stehmann-Saris JC, Deelman BG (2000) Prevalence of apraxia among patients with a first left hemisphere stroke in rehabilitation centres and nursing homes. Clin Rehabil 14:130-136 (Pubitemid 30162627)
21. Donkervoort M, Dekker J, Stehmann-Saris JC, Deelman BG (2001) Efficacy of strategy training in left hemisphere stroke patients with apraxia: a randomized clinical trial. Neuropsychol Rehabil 11:549-566 (Pubitemid 33140767)
22. Dovern A, Fink GR, Saliger J, Karbe H, Koch I, Weiss PH (2011) Apraxia impairs intentional retrieval of incidentally acquired motor knowledge. J Neurosci 31:8102-8108
23. Dovern A, Fink GR, Weiss PH (2011) How to diagnose and treat limb apraxia. Fortschritte Neurologie Psychiatrie 79:345-357
24. Duffy JR, Duffy RJ (1990) The assessment of limb apraxia: the limb apraxia test. In: Hammond GR (ed) Cerebral control of speech and limb movements. North-Holland, Amsterdam
25. Feyereisen P, Barter D, Goossens M, Clerebraut N (1988) Gestures and speech in referential communication by aphasic subjects: channel use and efficiency. Aphasiology 2:21-32
26. Foundas AL, Macauley BL, Raymer AM, Maher LM, Heilman KM, Gonzalez Rothi LJ (1995) Ecological implications of limb apraxia: evidence from mealtime behavior. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 1:62-66
27. Frey SH, Fogassi L, Grafton S, Picard N, Rothwell JC, Schweighofer N, Corbetta M, Fitzpatrick SM (2011) Neurological principles and rehabilitation of action disorders: computation, anatomy, and physiology (CAP) model. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 25:6S-20S
28. Geusgens C, van Heugten CM, Donkervoort M, van den Ende E, Jolles J, van den Heuvel W (2006) Transfer of training effects in stroke patients with apraxia: an exploratory study. Neuropsycholog Rehabil 16:213-229
29. Giaquinto S, Buzzelli S, Di Francesco L, Lottarini A, Montenero P, Tonin P, Nolfe G (1999) On the prognosis of outcome after stroke. Acta Neurol Scand 100:202-208 (Pubitemid 29376835)
30. Goldenberg G (1996) Defective imitation of gestures in patients with damage in the left or right hemispheres. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 61:176-180 (Pubitemid 26264328)
31. Goldenberg G (2003) The neuropsychological assessment and treatment of disorders of voluntary movement. In: Halligan P, Kischka U, Marshall JC (eds) Handbook of clinical neuropsychology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 387-400
32. Goldenberg G (2008) Apraxia. In: Goldenberg G, Miller BL (eds) Neuropsychology and behavioral neurology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 323-338
33. Goldenberg G (2008) Apraxien. Aktuelle Neurologie 35:34-48
34. Goldenberg G, Hagmann S (1997) The meaning of meaningless gestures: a study of visuo-imitative apraxia. Neuropsychologia 35:333-341 (Pubitemid 27090812)
35. Goldenberg G, Hagmann S (1998) Therapy of activities of daily living in patients with apraxia. Neuropsychol Rehabil 8:123-141 (Pubitemid 28151872)
36. Goldenberg G, Hagmann S (1998) Tool use and mechanical problem solving in apraxia. Neuropsychologia 36:581-589 (Pubitemid 28380079)
37. Goldenberg G, Daumüller M, Hagmann S (2001) Assessment and therapy of complex activities of daily living in apraxia. Neuropsychol Rehabil 11:147-169 (Pubitemid 32299136)
38. Goldenberg G, Hartmann K, Schlott I (2003) Defective pantomime of object use in left brain damage: apraxia or asymbolia? Neuropsychologia 41:1565-1573 (Pubitemid 36900350)
39. Goodglass H, Kaplan E (1972) Assessment of aphasia and related disorders. Lea and Febinger, Philadelphia
40. Hanna-Pladdy B, Heilman KM, Foundas AL (2003) Ecological implications of ideomotor apraxia. Neurology 60:487-490
41. Hermsdörfer J, Hentze S, Goldenberg G (2006) Spatial and kinematic features of apraxic movement depend on the mode of execution. Neuropsychologia 44:1642-1652 (Pubitemid 43928018)
42. Kaya K, Unsal-Delialioglu S, Kurt M, Altinok N, Ozel S (2006) Evaluation of ideomotor apraxia in patients with stroke: a study of reliability and validity. J Rehabil Med 38:108-112
43. Kertesz A, Ferro JM (1984) Lesion size and location in ideomotor apraxia. Brain 107:921-933 (Pubitemid 14036977)
44. Kertesz A, Hooper P (1982) Praxis and language: the extent and variety of apraxia in aphasia. Neuropsychologia 20:275-286 (Pubitemid 12090807)
45. Kokmen E, Ozekmekci FS, Cha RH, O'Brien PJ (1998) Testing for apraxia in neurological patients: a descriptive study in two diverse cultures. Eur J Neurol 5:175-180 (Pubitemid 28142569)
46. Liepelt I, Trenner MU, Freund S, Engel U, Lueschow A, Platz T (2007) Der Berliner-Apraxie-Test für ideomotorische und ideatorische Apraxie. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie 18:193-206
47. Lyle RC (1981) A performance test for assessment of upper limb function in physical rehabilitation treatment and research. Int J Rehabil Res 4:483-492 (Pubitemid 12144660)
48. McDonald S, Tate RL, Rigby J (1994) Error types in ideomotor apraxia: a qualitative analysis. Brain Cogn 25:250-270
49. Poeck K (1986) The clinical examination for motor apraxia. Neuropsychologia 24:129-134 (Pubitemid 16127964)
50. Power E, Code C, Croot K, Sheard C, Rothi LJG (2010) Florida apraxia battery-extended and revised Sydney (FABERS): design, description, and a healthy control sample. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 32:1-18
51. Rossetti Y, Rode G, Goldenberg G (2005) Perspectives in higherorder motor deficit rehabilitation. Which approach for which ecological result? In: Freund H-J, Jeannerod M, Hallett M, Leiguarda R (eds) Higher-order motor disorders. From neuroanatomy and neurobiology to clinical neurology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 475-498
52. Roßmüller J (2007) Theoriegeleitetes Assessment von Praxiefunktionen bei Schlaganfall-Patienten. Neurologie Rehabil 13:305-311
53. Rothi LJG, Heilman KM (1984) Acquisition and retention of gestures by apraxic patients. Brain Cogn 3:426-437
54. Rothi LJG, Mack L, Heilman KM (1986) Pantomime agnosia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 49:451-454 (Pubitemid 16108917)
55. Rothi LJG, Ochipa C, Heilman KM (1991) A cognitive neuropsychological model of limb praxis. Cogn Neuropsychol 8:443-458
56. Rothi LJG, Ochipa C, Heilman KM (1997) A cognitive neuropsychological model of limb praxis and apraxia. In: Rothi LJG, Heilman KM (eds) Apraxia: the neuropsychology of action. Psychology Press, Hove, pp 29-49
57. Roy EA, Black SE, Blair N, Dimeck PT (1998) Analyses of deficits in gestural pantomime. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 20:628-643 (Pubitemid 29119447)
58. Rumiati RI, Weiss PH, Tessari A, Assmus A, Zilles K, Herzog H, Fink GR (2005) Common and differential neural mechanisms supporting imitation of meaningful and meaningless actions. J Cogn Neurosci 17:1420-1431 (Pubitemid 41291965)
59. Saeki S, Ogata H, Okubo T, Takahashi K, Hoshuyama T (1995) Return to work after stroke. Stroke 26:399-401
60. Schwartz MF, Segal M, Veramonti T, Ferraro M, Buxbaum LJ (2002) The naturalistic action test: a standardised assessment for everyday action impairment. Neuropsychol Rehabil 12:311-339 (Pubitemid 35006179)
61. Smania N, Girardi F, Domenicali C, Lora E, Aglioti S (2000) The rehabilitation of limb apraxia: a study in left-brain-damaged patients. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 81:379-388 (Pubitemid 30192027)
62. Smania N, Aglioti SM, Girardi F, Tinazzi M, Fiaschi A, Cosentino A, Corato E (2006) Rehabilitation of limb apraxia improves daily life activities in patients with stroke. Neurology 67:2050-2052 (Pubitemid 44967390)
63. Sundet K, Finset A, Reinvang I (1988) Neuropsychological predictors in stroke rehabilitation. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 10:363-379
64. van Heugten CM, Dekker J, Deelman BG, van Dijk AJ, Stehmann-Saris JC, Kinebanian A (1998) Outcome of strategy training in stroke patients with apraxia: a phase II study. Clin Rehabil 12:294-303 (Pubitemid 28429958)
65. van Heugten CM, Dekker J, Deelman BG, Stehmann-Saris JC, Kinebanian A (1999) A diagnostic test for apraxia in stroke patients: internal consistency and diagnostic value. Clin Neuropsychol 13:182-192 (Pubitemid 29391506)
66. van Heugten CM, Dekker J, Deelman BG, Stehmann-Saris JC, Kinebanian A (1999) Assessment of disabilities in stroke patients with apraxia: internal consistency and interobserver reliability. Occup Ther J Res 19:55-73
67. van Heugten CM, Dekker J, Deelman BG, van Dijk AJ, Stehmann-Saris JC, Kinebanian A (2000) Measuring disabilities in stroke patients with apraxia: a validation study of an observational method. Neuropsychol Rehabil 10:401-414 (Pubitemid 30612068)
68. Vanbellingen T, Kersten B, Van de Winckel A, Bellion M, Baronti F, Müri R, Bohlhalter S (2011) A new bedside test of gestures in stroke: the apraxia screen of TULIA (AST). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82(4):389-392
69. Vanbellingen T, Kersten B, Van Hemelrijk B, Van de Winckel A, Bertschi M, Müri R, De Weerdt W, Bohlhalter S (2010) Comprehensive assessment of gesture production: a new test of upper limb apraxia (TULIA). Eur J Neurol 17:59-66
70. Wade DT, Collin C (1988) The Barthel ADL Index: a standard measure of physical disability? Int Disabil Stud 10:64-67
71. Weiss PH, Kalbe E, Kessler J, Fink GR (in press) Das Kölner Apraxie Screening. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen
72. Weiss-Blankenhorn PH, Fink GR (2008) Neue Erkenntnisse zur Pathophysiologie der Apraxien durch funktionelle Bildgebung. Fortschritte Neurologie Psychiatrie 76:402-412
73. West C, Bowen A, Hesketh A, Vail A (2009) Interventions for motor apraxia following stroke. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004132. pub2
74. Zwinkels A, Geusgens C, van de Sande P, van Heugten C (2004) Assessment of apraxia: inter-rater reliability of a new apraxia test, association of apraxia and other cognitive deficits and prevalence of apraxia in a rehabilitation setting. Clin Rehabil 18:819-827 (Pubitemid 39545202)