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. 1983 Sep;46(9):804–808. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.46.9.804

Apraxia in deep cerebral lesions.

E Agostoni, A Coletti, G Orlando, G Tredici
PMCID: PMC1027561  PMID: 6619888

Abstract

In a series of 50 patients with cerebrovascular lesions (demonstrated with CT scan), seven patients had lesions located in the basal ganglia and/or thalamus. All these seven patients were apractic. Ideomotor apraxia was present in all patients; five also had constructional apraxia, and one had bucco-facial apraxia. None of the patients had utilisation apraxia. These observations indicated that apraxia is not only a "high cerebral (cortical) function", but may depend also on the integrity of subcortical circuits and structures.

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