GERSTMANN SYNDROME: FINGER AGNOSIA, AGRAPHIA, CONFUSION OF RIGHT AND LEFT AND ACALCULIA

摘要: "Body scheme" or "body pattern" is the concept which a person has of structure his own body that another and relations parts to each other. This scheme may be disturbed without patient's becoming aware it spontaneously disturbance even fail cause any defect so far as performance purely motor functions concerned. The affected in whole part by focal lesions parietal parietooccipital region. Such do not necessarily affect projection tracts but involve association systems genuine psyche. There are certain peculiar differences, however, types resulting from two sides. Destruction major area, usually left, locations produces defects on both