Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Gerst·mann's syndrome Pronunciation:
'gerst-m&nz- Function:
noun : cerebral dysfunction characterized especially by finger agnosia,disorientation with respect to right and left, agraphia, and acalculia and caused by a lesion in the dominant cerebral hemisphere involving the angular gyrus and adjoining occipital gyri
Gerstámann /'gerst-män; 'g&rst-m&n/,
Josef (1887–1969), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. Gerstmann was in charge of a hospital for nervousand mental diseases during World War I, and after the war he occupied a similar position in Vienna where he also served as a university lecturer in neurology and psychiatry. He was the author of morethan a hundred papers on neuropsychiatry, including a 1924 article that gave the first description of the brain disorder now called Gerstmann's syndrome.
