Acalculia: historical development and current significance.
Acalculia is a loss of calculating abilities occurring as a result of cerebral damage. This paper reviews the development of the notion of acalculia from an expected concomitant of aphasia or dementia to that of a sometimes autonomous disorder. Current evidence indicates that acalculia tends to occur particularly in lesions of the left posterior hemispheric areas.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000266:history*; D003704:Dementia / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics / Q000266:history*