A case of dressing apraxia: contributory factor to dressing apraxia

Yamazaki, Kaoru; Hirata, Koichi; Mimuro, Izumi; Kaitoh, Yoshimi

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“…However, scores on the PSAI, a measure of gender-linked childhood activities and play, were unrelated to scores on the modified MRT. Thus, the novel proposal based on neuropsychological research (Fitzgerald et al, 2002;Yamazaki et al, 2001) that female-typical play may facilitate the mental rotation of animate forms was not supported in this research by the correlations between childhood play and performance. As other findings suggest that the contribution of male-typical toy play to spatial ability is relatively small (Baenninger and Newcombe, 1989;Voyer et al, 2000) and gender stereotypes may have biased recall of play styles in this research, our power to detect significant associations between the retrospective measure of sex-linked behavior and performance may been limited.…”

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“…The general understanding of that association between play and spatial ability is that the high spatial content of male-typical play facilitates the development of the general ability to perform spatial transformations (Voyer et al, 2000). However, both male-typical play and female-typical play include spatial manipulation of objects and the relevant spatial content of female-typical play styles (e.g., dressing dolls) is supported by findings that damage to brain parietal areas results in dressing difficulties as a function of deficits in mental rotation ability (Fitzgerald et al, 2002;Yamazaki et al, 2001). Thus, we reasoned that male-typical play may enhance the mental rotation of replicas of inanimate objects such as vehicles and blocks, whereas female-typical toy play, such as dressing dolls, may enhance the mental rotation of animate forms or body parts.…”

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Blocks and bodies: Sex differences in a novel version of the Mental Rotations Test

Alexander

Evardone

2008

Hormones and Behavior

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A novel version of the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) that alternated the standard block figures with three-dimensional human figures was administered to 99 men and 129 women. Women and men differed predictably in their retrospective reports of childhood play and digit ratios, a putative measure of prenatal androgen action. Compared to the block figure items, human figure items on the modified MRT were associated with an improvement in performance in both sexes. However, consistent with the study hypothesis, the enhancing effect of the human figure condition on performance as measured by conventional scores was smaller in men compared to women and not at all evident in men when performance was measured by ratio scores. A closer inspection of the human figures effects on test scores showed performance in women improved for both male and female figure items. In contrast, relative to scores on block figure items, performance in men improved when stimuli were male figures but did not improve when stimuli were female figures. These results add to the evidence that the magnitude of sex differences in scores on the MRT may vary according to the test content and item properties. The findings suggest that online measures of cognitive processing in response to different classes of test stimuli (e.g., animate vs. inanimate objects, self-relevant vs. neutral stimuli) may prove useful in research aimed at understanding the hormonal and social factors contributing to the sex difference in performance on the MRT.

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Blocks and bodies: Sex differences in a novel version of the Mental Rotations Test

Alexander

Evardone

2008

Hormones and Behavior

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“…In our patient the parietal lobe was apparently affected as demonstrated in diffusion weighted MRI. Lesions of the parietal lobe are known to be related with apraxia, pantomimic disorders and particularly with dressing apraxia [ 5 8 9 ]. Third, a number of radiological CJD mimics of CJD have been recognized including immune-mediated encephalitis, infections, toxic metabolic syndromes, stroke or common neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer disease [ 10 11 ].…”

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Dressing Apraxia as Initial Manifestation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements

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Background: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare prion disease characterized by rapidly progressive dementia. Case Report: A 76-year-old woman exhibited pronounced signs and symptoms of dressing apraxia for about seven weeks before the disease progressed and probable CJD was diagnosed supported by imaging and CSF findings. Discussion: Dressing apraxia as the initial manifestation of CJD has been sparsely reported. This remarkably focal syndrome should be considered with view on movement and neuropsychological disorders in early CJD.

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“…28,29 Specifically, it is the dynamic body representation that is crucial for praxis functions. 30 Indeed, RS’s impaired performance on the Hand Laterality Test is evidence of significant damage to her ability to construct a dynamic body representation due to injury in the occipitoparietofrontal pathway (dorsal stream). This damage is clearly visible in RS’s recent MRI scans, which are evidence that no structural plasticity occurred in the 10 years following her injury.…”

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Functional Plasticity in the Absence of Structural Change

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This work presents a case of a young woman with apraxia and a severe body scheme disorder, 10 years after a childhood frontal and occipitoparietal brain injury. Despite specific limitations, she is independent in performing all activities of daily living. A battery of tests was administered to evaluate praxis and body representations. Specifically, the Hand Laterality Test was used to compare RS's dynamic body representation to that of healthy controls (N = 14). Results demonstrated RS's severe praxis impairment, and the Hand Laterality Test revealed deficits in accuracy and latency of motor imagery, suggesting a significant impairment in dynamic body representation. However, semantic and structural body representations were intact. These results, coupled with frequent use of verbalizations as a strategy, suggest a possible ventral compensatory mechanism (top-down processing) for dorsal stream deficits, which may explain RS's remarkable recovery of activities of daily living. The link between praxis and dynamic body representation is discussed.

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A case of dressing apraxia: contributory factor to dressing apraxia

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Blocks and bodies: Sex differences in a novel version of the Mental Rotations Test

Blocks and bodies: Sex differences in a novel version of the Mental Rotations Test

Dressing Apraxia as Initial Manifestation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Functional Plasticity in the Absence of Structural Change

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