[Writing and drawing impairment in patients with brain damage of various etiologies].
The evolutional relationship between writing and drawing functions, and partial overlapping their brain centers stimulated to investigate of writing and drawing errors of brain damaged patients.


OBJECTIVE
of the work was elaboration of estimation criteria of writing and drawing errors of the patients, and indication of important likeness and differences between them.


METHODS
40 patients with brain damage of various etiology was examined by means of the writing/drawing scale consisted of 14 tasks. The quantitative and qualitative errors investigation was performed.


RESULTS
The significant writing errors committed 17 persons, drawing errors--25 persons. 14 errors types were referred to writing, 15 to drawing, and 6 to writing and drawing together. The correlation between quantitative estimations of errors was moderate, and between qualitative estimations of errors was high.


CONCLUSIONS
The significant writing errors committed 42.5% patients, drawing errors--62.5% patients. The differences between writing and drawing manifested by dissimilarities of majority of errors, the likeness--by 6 types common errors, and high correlation of results.
Jarzebska
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Katedra i Klinika Neurologii Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000381:Agraphia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests