acalculia

There are several ways in which rehabilitation of acalculia is carried out.

Details from a case study published in 2003 described the condition of a 55 year old woman living with acalculia.

There is a strong link between acalculia and finger agnosia.

Any damage to that blood supply would cause symptoms of both acalculia and finger agnosia.

It has been questioned whether primary acalculia can exist independently of other cognitive impairments.

Little research has been done on acalculia, despite the fact the calculation is considered an essential, upper-level cognitive skill.

They concluded that the areas underlying finger agnosia and acalculia are extremely close to one another, but distinct.

Secondary acalculia is a loss of calculation abilities that stems from other cognitive difficulties, such as memory.

Typically, acalculia is present because of Gerstmann's syndrome or it is linked with other disorders.

Cognitive rehabilitation may be useful for the symptoms that interfere with activities of daily life, such as agraphia and acalculia.

Individuals with acalculia generally live normal lives, unless there are other disabilities or traumatic injuries present that prevent normal living.

Shortly after Henshen's advances, Berger in 1926 distinguished between primary and secondary acalculia.

There exist no norms for Acalculia against which a person can be compared to assess his/her level of cognitive impairment with regards to calculation abilities.

Acalculia: an historical review of localization.

Damage directly to the intraparietal sulcus has been shown to cause acalculia, a severe disorder in mathematical cognition.

Damage to the left angular gyrus is known to cause computational difficulties like those associated with primary acalculia and anarithmetia.

Primary acalculia is a "pure" condition in which an individual can neither comprehend mathematical concepts nor perform mathematical operations.

This is why testing functions besides calculation abilities is crucial for the screening of acalculia- so that other disorders can be ruled out.

In 1919 he described dyscalculia, and later introduced the term "acalculia" to define the impairment of mathematical abilities in individuals with brain damage (1925).

It includes right-left confusion, difficulty with writing (agraphia) and difficulty with mathematics (acalculia).

The term "acalculia" was coined by Henschen in 1925; it refers to the decrease in cognitive capacity for calculation that results from damage to the brain.

In 1940, Gerstmann claimed that acalculia is associated with aspects of Gerstmann's syndrome, which include right-left confusion, agraphia, and digital agnosia.

Because acalculia is a symptom of the more commonly known Gerstmann's syndrome, it may be difficult to solely diagnose acalculia.

The patient was somewhat able to manage her acalculia by visiting a therapist who worked with her specifically on finger recognition tasks, especially on finger calculations.

In 1936, Lindquist proposed that lesions of different areas of the brain can cause different calculation defects, and that there are therefore several variations of acalculia.