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<i>MOTOR/SENSORY ASSESSMENT</i>
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<br/>1. Sensation
<br/>2. Visual field assessment for hemianopia
<br/>3. Contralateral neglect: by testing sensation in the UL/LL or approaching the subject from either side
<br/>4. Dressing apraxia: flip a jacket upside down and as the subject to wear it correctly
<br/>5. Agraphaesthesia: inability to recognize letters or numbers drawn on the skin
<br/>6. Bilateral (or contralateral) astereognosis: inability to identify an object by touch alone
<br/>7. Abnormal 2-point discrimination, normal: 3cm on the hands and feet, 0.6cm on the fingertips
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<br/><i>PEN TO PAPER TASKS</i>
<br/>8. Constructional apraxia 
<br/>- Reproduction drawings: copy a vertical diamond, 2D cross, 3D cube 
<br/>- Drawings to command: ask the patient to draw a clock with numbers and hands on it, daisy in a flowerpot, house in perspective 
<br/>- Block design test: the subject is required to arrange multi-colored cubes according to specific designs


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[[Category:Dysfunction]]
[[Category:Neuroanatomy]]
[[Category:Anatomy]]