Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome

Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome

See transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Gerstmann,

Josef, Austrian neurologist, 1887-1969.

Gerstmann syndrome - finger agnosia, agraphia, confusion of laterality of body, and acalculia caused by lesions between the occipital area and the angular gyrus.

Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome - a more chronic cerebellar form of spongiform encephalopathy.

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome

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Sträussler,

E., Austrian physician.

Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome - see under Gerstmann

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome