Archive for the 'Dyslexia' Category
Having Right Timing ‘Connections’ In Brain Is Key To Overcoming Dyslexia
Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers….
New York Hosts Major Conference On Dyslexia
The New York department of The universal Dyslexia organization will be holding its 34th Annual conference on Dyslexia & Related Learning Disabilities titled Closing The Gap amoung Research and Practice on Monday, March 12 & Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis, New York, New York…
New UCLA Study Challenges Theory Of Inner Clock
“Time” is the most popular noun in the English language, yet how would we tell instance whether we didn’t have access to the plethora of watches, clocks and cell phones at our disposal?For decades, scientists have believed that the brain possesses an internal clock that allows it to keep track of mo…
New Dyslexia Theory Blames ‘Noise’
The dyslexic brain struggles to read considering even small distractions can throw it off, according to a new model of dyslexia emerging from a group of recent studies.The studies contradict an influential, 30-year-old theory that blamed dyslexia on a neural deficit in processing the fast sounds of …
Link amidst A Sound And A Reward Changes Brain And Behavior
If you’ve ever wondered how you recognize your mother’s voice without seeing her face or how you discern your cell phone’s ring in a crowded room, researchers may have another piece of the reply.Their work indicates that once you figure out your mother’s voice is a good thing - most days - fairly me…
Learning Disabilities: NIH Turns To FSU For Top Research
Florida State University has been awarded a $6-million grant from the federal government by five years to fund research efforts aimed at increasingly effectively understanding, predicting and preventing the development of learning disabilities such as dyslexia in children, it was announced nowadays….
Brain Images Show Individual Dyslexic Children reply To Spelling Treatment
Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling. But after specialized treatment emphasizing the letters in words, they showed similar …
Dyslexia risk gene identified
About five million Germans have serious learning difficulties when it comes to reading and writing. It is frequently the case that several members of the same family are affected. So hereditary disposition seems to play an urgent role in the occurrence of dyslexia. Scientists at the universities of …
Novel discovery of ‘DCDC2′ gene associated with dyslexia
Pediatric researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a gene on human chromosome 6 called DCDC2, which is linked to dyslexia, a reading disability affecting millions of children and adults. The researchers plus found that a genetic alteration in DCDC2 leads to a disruption in the formatio…
Dyslexia redefined
The dyslexic brain may have a general problem forming perceptual categories, including the templates for printed letters and speech sounds, say USC neuroscientists. that is reflected in a reduced ability to filter out visual “noise” that can obscure a sample, the researchers propose. [click link for…
New evidence for roots of dyslexia, study
Addressing a persistent debate in the field of dyslexia research, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Southern California (USC) have disproved the popular theory that deficits in positive visual processes cause the spelling and reading woes commonly suffered by dy…
