Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Down Syndrome, Apraxia, Parietal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

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Fri, feb. 8/19 lecture 12: transcortical sensory. Apraxia: disorder of learned, skilled purposeful movement, exclusion diagnosis (comprehension deficit, paralysis, visuospatial neglect, cognitive deficit. Inability to evoke the appropriate action representation from long term memory. Forget the rules on how to make movements: they also perform the actions in an inappropriate order. Inability to translate the appropriate innevatory patterns into action: they know what they want to do, they just cannot translate it into actual movement. Dyspraxia - developmental coordinative disorder: resolves as the individual gets older and through rehab, developmental disorder. Right hemisphere: movement praxies should be lateralized here. If they are to move: rh -> lh movement praxies or speech production centres, biological dissociation between speech production and movement praxis (lh) and receptive language (rh) Learn well with visual information as opposed to verbal information: there are structural scans, corpus callosum is thinner and is rounder, different shape than general population, thin in the rostral fifth.