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| + | Rusconi, E. Gerstmann syndrome: historic and current perspectives. in Handbook of Clinical Neurology vol. 151 395–411 (Elsevier, 2018). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29519471/ | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 1 June 2021
Gerstmann syndrome (angular gyrus syndrome) - localized to dominant inferior parietal lobe (Rusconi 2018)
Characterized by 4 symptoms:
• a writing disability (agraphia or dysgraphia)
• a lack of understanding of the rules for calculation or arithmetic (acalculia or dyscalculia)
• an inability to distinguish right from left
• an inability to identify fingers (finger agnosia)
Praxis
Left temporoparietal junction: sensorimotor interface – primary affected region of logopenic PPA (trouble with word retrieval, transforming the idea into a word)
References
Rusconi, E. Gerstmann syndrome: historic and current perspectives. in Handbook of Clinical Neurology vol. 151 395–411 (Elsevier, 2018). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29519471/
