The enigma of Gerstmann's syndrome (The William Gowers lecture delivered on 2 December 1965). By Macdonald Critchley. Brain 1966: 89; 183-198

A. Compston

doi:10.1093/brain/awp340

The enigma of Gerstmann's syndrome (The William Gowers lecture delivered on 2 December 1965). By Macdonald Critchley. Brain 1966: 89; 183-198

Brain ◽

10.1093/brain/awp340 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 133 (2) ◽

pp. 314-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Compston

Keyword(s):

Gerstmann’S Syndrome

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Some evidence on Gerstmann’s syndrome: A case study on a variant of the clinical disorder

Brain and Cognition ◽

10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105679 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 148 ◽

pp. 105679

Author(s):

Benedetta Basagni ◽

Claudio Luzzatti ◽

Antonio De Tanti ◽

Francesca Bozzetti ◽

Girolamo Crisi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Disorder ◽

Gerstmann’S Syndrome

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Loss of Spatial Orientation, Constructional Apraxia and Gerstmann'S Syndrome

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.90.380.753 ◽

1944 ◽

Vol 90 (380) ◽

pp. 753-760 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

E. Stengel

Keyword(s):

Spatial Orientation ◽

Parietal Lobe ◽

The Other ◽

Angular Gyrus ◽

Dominant Hemisphere ◽

Comprehensive Description ◽

War Injuries ◽

Constructional Apraxia ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Gerstmann’S Syndrome

In recent years important additions to the knowledge of the symptomatology in cases with involvement of the parietal lobe have been made. Both constructional apraxia (Kleist, 1922) and Gerstmann's syndrome, consisting of finger-agnosia, disturbance of right-left orientation, agraphia and acalculia (1924) have been related to lesions of the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. Before the description of those symptoms, a loss of spatial orientation had been described in cases with lesions of the same localization. Balint (1910), Riddoch (1917), and others had observed that symptom in single cases, but the most comprehensive description was given by Gordon Holmes (1918), who studied it in a case-material of war injuries. When Holmes and his co-workers published their observations, constructional apraxia and Gerstmann's syndrome were still unknown. Loss of spatial orientation as a fully developed symptom is rare, while the other two disorders are not uncommon. For this reason the psychopathological relationship of those symptoms is still insufficiently understood. The following case offers an opportunity for studying the problem:

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