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Vanbellingen, T.; Kersten, B.; Bellion, M.; Temperli, P.; Baronti, F.; Muri, R.; Bohlhalter, S. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
A controversial concept suggests that impaired finger dexterity in Parkinson's disease may be related to limb kinetic apraxia that is not explained by elemental motor deficits such as bradykinesia. To explore the nature of dexterous difficulties, the aim of the present study was to assess the relationship of finger dexterity with ideomotor praxis…
Descriptors: Diseases, Pathology, Rating Scales, Patients
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Nelson, Linda D.; Scheibel, Kevin E.; Ringman, John M.; Sayre, James W. – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Measures developed from animal models of aging may detect dementia of the Alzheimer's type in a population at-risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although, by middle age, individuals with Down syndrome (DS) show an extraordinarily high prevalence of AD-type pathology, their severe idiopathic cognitive deficits tend to confound the "clinical"…
Descriptors: Pathology, Animals, Alzheimers Disease, Down Syndrome