Josef Gerstmann

Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969)

Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969) was an Austrian neuropsychiatrist

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Biography
  • Born on 1887
  • World War I, he served in the medical corps in the Italian Alps
  • 1924 – described finger agnosia (Gerstmann syndrome)
  • 1928 – professor and head of the neuropsychiatric unit in Vienna
  • 1938 – emigrated to America to escape Nazi persecution – clinical and research psychiatry in Maryland, Washington, and New York.
  • Died on 1969

Medical Eponyms
Gerstmann syndrome

autotopagnosia; finger agnosia

Gerstmann syndrome 2

A paranoid psychosis with auditory hallucinations in patients with general paresis of the insane, as a result of malarial therapy, described by Gerstmann in 1924.


Major Publications
  • Gerstmann J. Fingeragnosie: Eine umschriebene Störung der Orientierung am eigenen Körper. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 1924; 37: 1010–1012 [Gerstmann syndrome 2]
  • Gerstmann J. Über ein noch nicht beschriebenes Reflexphänomen bei einer Erkrankung des zerebellaren Systems. Wiener medicinische Wochenschrift 1928; 78: 906–908
  • Gerstmann J. Zur Symptomatologie der Hirnlasionen im Ubergangsgebiet der unteren Parietal-und mittleren Occipitalwindung. (Das Syndrom: Fingeragnosie, Rechts-Links-Storung, Agraphie, Akalkulie). Nerveniarzt 1930; 3: 691-5.

References

Biography

Eponymous terms

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease

Gerstmann syndrome


Eponym

the person behind the name

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