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Gerstmann’s syndrome

Gerstmann’s syndrome Gerstmann’s syndrome is a cognitive disorder marked by difficulty recognizing one’s fingers, writing, calculating, and telling right from left.

Gerstmann’s syndrome is a cognitive disorder marked by difficulty recognizing one’s fingers, writing, calculating, and telling right from left. It can be developmental or acquired, and acquired cases are linked to damage in the dominant, usually left, parietal lobe around the angular gyrus or nearby white matter.