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Gerstmann
Gerstmann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jeff Gerstmann (born 1975), American video game journalist and musician * Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969), Austrian neurologist * Louis Gerstman (1930–1992), American neuropsychologist See also * Gerstmann syndrome, a neuropsychological disorder * Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is an extremely rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects patients from 20 to 60 years in age. It is exclusively heritable, and is found in only a few families all over ..., a very rare fatal neurodegenerative disease {{surname, Gerstmann German-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Gerstmann
Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1, 1975) is an American video game journalist. Former editorial director of the gaming website ''GameSpot'' and the co-founder/editor of the gaming website ''Giant Bomb'', Gerstmann began working at ''GameSpot'' in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot when ''GameSpot'' split PC and console games into separate areas. He shared his thoughts on a variety of other subjects every Monday on his ''GameSpot'' blog before his controversial dismissal from ''GameSpot'' in 2007 following a review of ''Kane & Lynch: Dead Men''. In 2012, Complex magazine, ''Complex'' magazine named Gerstmann in their top 25 biggest celebrities in the video game industry. Career Gerstmann began work in video game journalism in the early 1990s, having been involved with the game industry since age 17 doing freelance work as well as working for a print magazine for under a year. He was hired as an intern for ''GameSpot'' in 1996, eventually becoming editorial director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Gerstmann
Josef Gerstmann (July 17, 1887, Lemberg – March 23, 1969, New York City) was a Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist. Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, between 1906 and 1912 graduating in 1912. During World War I he served with distinction as the sanitary officer. Subsequently, he worked at the Clinic for Psychiatry-Neurology in Vienna with Wagner-Jauregg, and, after becoming Professor, he became the chief of Neurological Institute Maria-Theresien-Schlössel, Vienna in 1930. Being Jewish, he emigrated with his wife Martha to the United States in 1938, escaping the Nazi Anschluss. Initially Gerstmann worked at the Springfield / Ohio State Hospital, and from 1940 to 1941 as a research assistant and as a consultant neurologist at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Washington. 1941 he moved to New York and became a research associate at the New York Neurological Institute and an attending neuropsychiatrist at Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerstmann Syndrome
Gerstmann syndrome is a neuropsychological disorder that is characterized by a constellation of symptoms that suggests the presence of a lesion usually near the junction of the temporal and parietal lobes at or near the angular gyrus. Gerstmann syndrome is typically associated with damage to the inferior parietal lobule of the dominant hemisphere. It is classically considered a left-hemisphere disorder, although right-hemisphere damage has also been associated with components of the syndrome. It is named after Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist Josef Gerstmann. Symptoms Gerstmann syndrome is characterized by four primary symptoms, collectively referred to as a tetrad: # Dysgraphia/agraphia: deficiency in the ability to write # Dyscalculia/acalculia: difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics # Finger agnosia: inability to distinguish the fingers on the hand # Left-right disorientation Causes This disorder is often associated with brain lesions in the domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is an extremely rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects patients from 20 to 60 years in age. It is exclusively heritable, and is found in only a few families all over the world. It is, however, classified with the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) due to the causative role played by PRNP, the human prion protein. GSS was first reported by the Austrian physicians Josef Gerstmann, Ernst Sträussler and Ilya Scheinker in 1936. Familial cases are associated with autosomal-dominant inheritance. Certain symptoms are common to GSS, such as progressive ataxia, pyramidal signs, and dementia; they worsen as the disease progresses. Symptoms and signs Symptoms start with slowly developing dysarthria (difficulty speaking) and cerebellar truncal ataxia (unsteadiness) and then the progressive dementia becomes more evident. Loss of memory can be the first symptom of GSS. Extrapyramidal and pyramida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gerstman
Louis "Lou" Gerstman (April 22, 1930 - March 17, 1992) was an American neuropsychologist best known for his work in speech synthesis. He was a co-inventor, along with John Kelly, of the computer portrayed as HAL 9000 in the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. He also worked with Irv Teibel on Teibel's psychoacoustic environments recording series at Bell Labs, where Gerstman was working at the time. Early life On April 22, 1930, Gerstman was born in Buffalo, New York. Education Gerstman attended the University of Buffalo, Harvard University, and New York University. Career In 1950s and early 1960s, Gerstman was a researcher and consultant for Western Electric, Bell Labs, Haskins Laboratories, and Columbia University during which he worked on computer speech processing to aide stroke recovery and learning disabilities. In 1966, he began teaching at City University in New York City and he became a professor at City College in 1969. At the latter, he specialized in speech proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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