Mishal Shanover 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.
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