The mysterious disease caused the boy to be afraid of math so much that his head kept bouncing on his nerves

Math is a lot of fear! But being so scared that even if he saw a seizure, it was due to a mysterious disease.

Math is a lot of fear! But being so scared that even if he saw a seizure, it was due to a mysterious disease.

The truth is that many of us are afraid of math! For people who are so scared that even if they see the number, they are sweating profusely, but they do not need to embark on thinking about this solution, this low-level and high-level math.

However, no matter how much you are afraid of math, you can't compare to a guy in the case below. He was so frightened that he never dared to look at math, because whenever he had a head, it was . convulsive.

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This guy had seizures every time he performed any calculations in his head.

In particular, in a study published in 1982 in the Annals of Neurology journal, a case of a Canadian patient was recorded. This person suffers from a mysterious disease, causing him to have seizures every time he performs any calculation in his head.

The first jerking muscle occurred when he was 12 years old, and they happened when he was playing cards, solving crosswords, and doing math. The common point of all is related to . number of cheeks: calculating points when playing cards, counting cells when solving crossword, and math, everyone probably knows.

But it didn't stop there, things became even more bizarre when people discovered that not any operation would make this patient seizure. Addition and subtraction are okay, but it is natural to be sick with regard to multiplication or division.

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Addition and subtraction are okay, but it is natural to be sick with regard to multiplication or division.

In addition, only what is related to math makes the disease work. Actions related to thinking such as reading, writing . are not influential.

Eventually, people call this mysterious disease "epilepsia arithmetics."

The Canadian guy is not the only one suffering from this disease. In 1962, two neuroscientists D. Ingvar and G. Nyman reported a case of the first "arithmetic seizure" : a 16-year-old girl, thinking about maths as convulsions.

Causes of strange illness?

Up to now, the number of cases of arterial seizures is very small, only on the fingertips, so the cause is still left open.

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This disease is called "Artery epilepsy".

Just knowing that, preliminary studies show that the brains of these people encounter a mysterious phenomenon.This phenomenon makes every time they perform calculations, the brain emits waves in rhythm, causing the body to be affected.

In addition, it is likely that the brain region responsible for processing calculation-related information has a big role in this.

But in general, at least be happy to live with math, because at least it does not put you at risk.

Update 15 December 2018
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