Apraxia and cerebellar disorders.

Roll A - Apraxia and Cerebellar Disorders. The following contents list and description is taken from the Institute of Neurology cinefilm catalogue. "Dressing Apraxia: A man in atrial fibrillation awoke one morning entirely unable to dress. Investigation showed he had sustained an embolic infarct in the right parietal region. The film shows his futile endeavours to remove his dressing gown and his pyjama jacket and his equally unsuccessful attempts to put them on (5 min.) / Apraxia: A woman of 65 years gradually lost the ability to perform tasks such as dressing and writing. She had a severe dysphasia and apraxia, the latter being fully illustrated in the film which shows her attempting to dress, to copy shapes and to imitate gestures. The condition appeared to be the result of a degenerative lesion of the parietal lobes (6 min.) / Apraxia: A good illustration of apraxia following encephalitis in a girl of 15 years (6 min.) / Cerebellar disorders: The features of a unilateral cerebellar lesion in a young man are shown including an ataxic gait, incoordination of the upper limb, Romberg's test, the finger nose test, dysdiadokokinesis, overswing and tremor. The lesion was a cerebellar tumour which was successfully removed (6 min.) / The signs of cerebellar disorder: Clips of a number of patients to show the ataxic gait, gross tremor of the upper limbs, nystagmus and dysmetria of eye movements encountered in cerebellar disease (3 min.) / Superior cerebellar peduncle syndrome: A man with multiple sclerosis is shown with violent tremor of the limbs and trunk which prevented him walking or using his hands. He was able to crawl. The lesion was thought to be in the superior cerebellar penduncle (3 min.) / Dyssnergia cerebellaris progressiva: A girl of 18 years developed myoclonic jerks and generalised convulsions. At 27 years incoordination and ataxia appeared. The film, taken when she was 40 years, shows her myoclonus and incoordination. The film is also valuable in showing how cerebellar function should be examined (9 min.) / Cerebellar degeneratin with glutamate dehydrogenase deficience: The films shows a man of 58 years with a 12 year history of tremor, ataxia and dementia who was found to have deficiency of the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase. There are good sequences of his gait and tremor and his deterioration over two years is shown (4 min.)"