Mishal Shanabout 3 years ago

Gerstmann Syndrome

This refers to a constellation of findings arising as a result of a lesion at the angular gyrus near the junction of temporal and parietal lobes. Damage to this area compromises important functions of calculation, writing, counting fingers and left-right orientation. Patients, thus, present with alexia, agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, left-right disorientation. In adults, the most common etiology is a stroke.