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Apraxia
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Also known as: movement disorder · inability to act · ideomotor apraxia · tool use disorder · limb apraxia · ideational apraxia · unable to execute actions · movement planning impaired
Your Body Is Speaking
Your brain knows what you want to do. Your muscles are intact. Your nerves are conducting. And yet the movement does not succeed. You want to fasten a button — and your fingers do something else. You want to form a word — and your mouth does not obey. You want to carry out an action you have performed a thousand times — and suddenly the path between intention and execution is interrupted. As if someone had demolished the bridge between your wanting and your doing.
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