Gerstmann's Syndrome
Multiple Choice Questions in Neurology: Characteristic feature(s) of Gerstmann's syndrome: Alexia Acalculia Anomia Right and left confusion Finger anomia Dyscalculia Alexia Difficulty in reading or understanding the written words Acalculia / Dyscalculia Acquired disorder of calculation abilities Inability to perform known arithmetic functions Anomia Difficulty in word finding Impairment of retrieving known words Intact comprehension Intact word repetition Agnosia Inability to retrieve known sensory information Auditory agnosia: inability to recognize or differentiate between sounds Visual agnosia: inability to recognize objects Finger agnosia: inability to name, distinguish or recognize the own or others fingers Prosopagnosia Facial agnosia Inability to recognize known or familiar faces Simultanagnosia Disorder of visual attention Ability to visualize a single object of a whole scene Unable to visualize more than a single object at a time Unable to visualize the overall meaning of ...