Josef Gerstmann (July 17, 1887,

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) was a Jewish Austrian-born American

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. Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in

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, then capital of the

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, 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

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, he emigrated with his wife Martha to the United States in 1938, escaping the Nazi

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. 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 Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Gerstmann opened a private practise at

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. He was named an honorary member of the American Psychiatric Association and Academy of Neurology, a member of the American Psychopathological Association, Psychotherapeutic Society, Pirquet Society and the Rudolf Virchow Society. Gerstmann died on March 23, 1969 in his New York apartment.

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and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome are named after him.

Selected works

* "Beiträge zur Pathologie des Rückenmarks". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' 29, 1, 97-167, 1915 * Gerstmann J, Schilder P. "Zur Kenntnis der Bewegungsstörungen der Pseudosklerose". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' 58, 1, 33–41, 1920 * "Über die Einwirkung der malaria tertiana auf die progressive Paralyse". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'', 1920 * ''Die Malariabehandlung der progressiven Paralyse''. Wiedeń, 1925; 2. wydanie 1928. * "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Entwicklungsstörungen in der Hirnrinde bei genuiner Epilepsie, Idiotie, juveniler Paralyse und Dementia praecox". ''Arbeiten Neurol Inst Wiener Univ'' 21:286–313 (1916) * "Fingeragnosie. Eine umschriebene Störung der Orientierung am eigenen Körper". ''Wiener Klin Wochenschr'' 37:1010–1012 (1924) * Gerstmann J, Schilder P. "Studien über Bewegungsstörungen". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' 70, 1, 35–54, 1921 * "Zur Frage der Umwandlung des klinischen Bildes der Paralyse in eine halluzinatorisch-paranoide Erscheinungsform im Gefolge der Malariaimpfbehandlung". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' 93, 1, 200–218, 1924 * Gerstmann J, Schilder P. Mikrographie bei Sensorisch-Aphasischen. 1925 * "Fingeragnosie und isolierte Agraphie; ein neues Syndrom". ''Zeitschr Gesamte Neurol Psychiatr'' (Berlin) 108:152–177 (1927) * "Über ein noch nicht beschriebenes Reflexphänomen bei einer Erkrankung des zerebellaren Systems". ''Wiener Med Wochenschr'' 78:906–908 (1928) * "Über ein neuartiges hirnpathologisches Phänomen". ''Wiener Klin Wochenschr'' 50:294–296 (1928) * Gerstmann J, Kestenbaum A. "Monokuläres Doppeltsehen bei cerebralen Erkrankungen". ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' 128, 1–4, 42–56, 1930 * Gerstmann J, Sträussler E. ''Zum Problemgebiet der Encephalomyelitis und der multiplen Sklerose''. 1931 * "Zur Symptomatologie der Stirnhirnerkrankungen". ''Mschr Psychiat Neurol'' 1936;93:102-110 * THE PHENOMENON OF BODY ROTATION IN FRONTAL LOBE LESIONS. 1940 * "Some notes on the Gerstmann syndrome". ''Neurology'' 7: 866–869 (1957) * PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DISORDERS OF THE BODY IMAGE. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1958 * "Right-Left Discrimination and Finger Localization". ''The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease'', 1960 * "Some posthumous notes on the Gerstmann syndrome" by J. Gerstmann. ''Wiener Zeitschr Nervenheilk'' 28:12–19 (1970)

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