Gerstmann's Syndrome | National Institute of Neurological …
网页2024年7月19日 · Gerstmann's syndrome is a cognitive impairment that results from damage to a specific area of the brain known as the left parietal lobe in the region of the angular gyrus. It may occur after a stroke or in association with damage to the parietal lobe. It is characterized by four primary symptoms: Many adults also experience aphasia, …
Gerstmann syndrome - Wikipedia
网页Gerstmann syndrome is a neurological disorder that is characterized by a constellation of symptoms [1] that suggests the presence of a lesion usually near the junction of the temporal and parietal lobes at or near the angular gyrus.Gerstmann syndrome is typically associated with damage to the inferior parietal lobule of the dominant hemisphere.It is …
Gerstmann Syndrome - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | NORD
网页2008年3月27日 · Previous section; Next section > Signs & Symptoms. Gerstmann syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the loss of four specific neurological functions: Inability to write (dysgraphia or agraphia), the loss of the ability to do mathematics (acalculia), the inability to identify one’s own or another’s fingers (finger agnosia), and …
Gerstmann Syndrome - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2023年8月28日 · Gerstmann syndrome is a rare neurological disorder consisting of a tetrad of symptoms which include impairment in performing calculations (acalculia), discriminating their own fingers (finger agnosia), writing by hands (agraphia) and impairment of distinguishing left from right (left-right disorientation).
Gerstmann's Syndrome - BrainFacts
网页Gerstmann's Syndrome. Gerstmann's syndrome is a cognitive impairment that results from damage to a specific area of the brain -- the left parietal lobe in the region of the angular gyrus. It may occur after a stroke or in association with damage to the parietal lobe. It is characterized by four primary symptoms: a writing disability (agraphia ...
Gerstmann Syndrome - EyeWiki
网页Gerstmann syndrome is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by the tetrad of agraphia (inability to write), acalculia (inability to perform mathematical calculations), finger agnosia (inability to name, discriminate, or identify fingers), and left-right disorientation (inability to distinguish left from right). ...
Gerstmann syndrome | About the Disease | GARD - Genetic and …
网页Gerstmann syndrome is a very rare neurological disorder characterized by the specific association of acalculia, finger agnosia, left-right disorientation, and agraphia, which is supposed to be secondary to a focal subcortical white matter damage in the parietal lobe. Summary. Gerstmann syndrome is a very rare neurological disorder characterized ...
enigma of Gerstmann's syndrome revisited: a telling tale of the ...
网页2009年11月10日 · Nonetheless, Gerstmann's syndrome has continued to intrigue both clinical neurologists and researchers in neuropsychology, and more frequently than not is described in textbooks as an example of parietal lobe damage. In this review, we revisit the chequered history of this syndrome, which can be seen as a case study of the dialectic …
Gerstmann Syndrome - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Gerstmann Syndrome. This well-known syndrome includes an agnosia for the fingers as well as right-left disorientation, acalculia, and agraphia. It has been assumed since Joseph Gerstmann's original description in 1931 that when the four symptoms of the syndrome were present, a left parietal lesion could be found.
Gerstmann syndrome: historic and current perspectives
网页2018年1月1日 · Introduction. Gerstmann syndrome has been part of neurology textbooks on parietal symptomatology since at least the 1950s. It has been linked with controversy in the past, and it can still polarize opinions, although its status as a syndrome was established in the second half of the last century and could be hardly denied nowadays.