Dyscalculia

Current Research

Research into the underlying causes of dyscalculia are currently very much in their infancy. Current research by Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh at University College London has discovered that the right parietal lobe of the brain is essential to automatic processing of number. It could then follow from this that dyscalculic pupils have either smaller or less efficient parietal lobes and that dyscalculia, like dyslexia, is caused by a difference in brain function, ie it is a neurological difficulty.

'Virtual Dyscalculia Induced by Parietal-Lobe TMS Impairs Automatic Magnitude Processing', published in the journal of Current Biology 17.04.07

Other research is looking into dyscalculia being a congenital or hereditary disorder, or that it is caused by either working memory of short-term memory disruption or reduction, or that it could be a combination of these factors.