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has gloss | eng: Ideomotor Apraxia, often IMA, is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily pantomime tool use, e.g. pretend to brush ones hair. The ability to spontaneously use tools, such as brushing ones hair in the morning without being instructed to do so, may remain intact, but is often lost as well. The general concept of apraxia and the classification of ideomotor apraxia were developed in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the work of Hugo Liepmann, Adolph Kussmaul, Arnold Pick, Paul Flechsig, Hermann Munk, Carl Nothnagel, Theodor Meynert, and linguist Heymann Steinthal, among others. Ideomotor apraxia was classified as “ideo-kinetic apraxia” by Liepmann due to the apparent dissociation of the idea of the action with its execution . |
lexicalization | eng: ideomotor apraxia |
instance of | (noun) an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning disease |
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