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Kleist's apraxia
Also known as:
Mayer-Gross's syndrome
Associated persons:
Karl Kleist
Wilhelm (Willy) Mayer-Gross
Description:
A disturbance occurring in some types of cerebral lesions, characterised by the inability to draw, write, or construct two- or three-dimensional geometric figures with matchsticks.
Bibliography:
- K. Kleist:
Gehirnpathologie. Leipzig, 1934.
- W. Mayer-Gross:
Some observations on apraxia.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 1935, 128: 1203-12.
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