n.
Disturbance in carrying out skilled acts, caused by a lesion in the cerebral cortex ; motor power and mental capacity remain intact.
Motor apraxia is the inability to perform fine motor acts. Ideational apraxia is loss of the ability to plan even a simple action. In ideokinetic apraxia, there is no coordination between formation of ideas and motor activity; affected persons can do certain things automatically but not deliberately. Constructional apraxia is the inability to put together elements to form a meaningful whole.