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- noun The
ability torecognise writing on theskin purely by the sensation oftouch .
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If letter gnosis recognition is intact, the error is called graphesthesia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Stereognosia, graphesthesia, tests of interhemisphere information transfer and coordination
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Other specific tests of integrated function are graphesthesia and stereognosis.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Just as in the assessment of kinesthetic praxis, the evaluation of graphesthesia and stereognosis tests ( 1 ) the parietal lobe contralateral to the hand being tested and (2) the connections between the two hemispheres.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Following the test of graphesthesia on the hand ipsilateral to the patient’s dominant hemisphere, graphesthesia should be tested in the preferred hand.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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