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. 2023 Mar 24;10(5):856-857.
doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13721. eCollection 2023 May.

Pattern Specific Dysgraphia-Beyond Letter Specificity

Jacky Ganguly  1 , Supriyo Choudhury  1 , Hrishikesh Kumar  1
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Pattern Specific Dysgraphia-Beyond Letter Specificity

Jacky Ganguly et al. Mov Disord Clin Pract. .
No abstract available

Keywords: dysgraphia; pattern specificity.

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(A) and (D) show the writing of patient and the matched healthy participant, respectively. The red arrow indicates a hesitation while starting to write a Bengali alphabet “ত”. (B) and (E) depicts the change in absolute velocity over time. The peak absolute velocity is more than double in the healthy participant compared to the patient. (C) and (F) depict comparable pen pressure between patient and healthy control.
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