The Week contest - arithmetic agony

People with math anxiety feel actual pain when forced to do difficult numerical problems, according to a study that scanned their brains with MRI machines. Please come up with a medical name for the pain felt by math haters.

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According to new research "math anxiety" is something that should be treated just like a phobia such as fear of heights.
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