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(The Syndrome: Finger Agnosia, Right-Left Confusion, Agraphia and Acalculia)

Josef Gerstmann

Arch Neurol. 1971;24(5):476.

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... The subject of this paper is the peculiar symptom that I first described several years ago (1924)² under the name of "finger agnosia." It manifests itself as an isolated disturbance in the recognition, naming, choosing, and differential exhibition of the various fingers of both hands—one's own fingers as well as those of another person. There is also a certain lack of freedom in the movements of individual fingers .... Furthermore, I will discuss the association that I noted between this symptom and a disturbance in rightleft orientation (in one's own as well as in another's body), agraphia and acalculia.³ And finally, I will relate the presence of this syndrome to focal lesions ... in the transitional area between the angular and second occipital convolution.

Since my first observation, ... I have established this syndrome with a considerable series of patients, in some of whom it existed as an independent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Vienna

Footnotes
Translation of: Zur Symptomatologie der Hirnläsionen im Ubergangsgebiet der unteren Parietal—und mittleren Occipitalwindung. (Das Syndrom: Fingeragnosie, Rechts-Links-Störung, Agraphie, Akalkulie). Nervenarzt 3:691-695, 1930.

A lecture presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the "Gesellschaft deutscher Nervenärzte", September 18-20, 1930, in Dresden.

Fingeragnosie. Wien. klin. Wschr., 1924, Nr. 40.

Fingeragnosie und isolierte Agraphie—ein neues Syndrom. Z. Neur. 108 (1927).

Uber die Agraphie und ihre lokaldiagnostischen Beziehungen. Berlin: S. Karger 1926.—Mschr. Psychiatr. 70 (1928).

Z Neur. 113 (1928) (jointly with Isakower).

Die neuropathologischen Syndrome. Berlin: Julius Springer 1929.

Fingeragnosie und Agraphie. Mschr. Psychiatr. 76 (1930).

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