<prompt> Gerstmann syndrome occurs due to damage toLeft inferior parietal regionLeft temporal regionRight Inferior parietal regionRight temporal region  <response>: A Left inferior parietal region Gerstmanns Syndrome is a combination of:1. Acalculia impairment of simple arithmetic,2. Dysgraphia impaired writing,3. Finger anomia an inability to name individual fingers such as the index and thumb, 4. Right-left confusion an inability to tell whether a hand, foot, or arm of the patient or examiner is on the right or left side of the body. Diagnosis: it is important to establish that the finger and left-right naming deficits are not part of a more generalized anomia and that the patient is not otherwise aphasic. Gerstmanns syndrome arises acutely is commonly associated with damage to the inferior parietal lobule especially the angular gyrus in the left hemisphere. 