Dyslexia - news item 1 of 48
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Tract-based spatial statistics of diffusion tensor imaging in adults with dyslexia.
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Related Articles Tract-Based Spatial Statistics of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Adults with Dyslexia. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 May 8; Authors: Richards T, Stevenson J, Crouch J, Johnson LC, Maravilla K, Stock P, Abbott R, Berninger V BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Diffusion tensor imaging is a tool that can be used...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 8 May 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 2 of 48
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The specials
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Studying medicine with dyslexia (Source: studentBMJ: Contents RSS Feed)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 May 2008 7:37:38 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 3 of 48
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No differential attentional blink in dyslexia after controlling for baseline sensitivity.
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Related Articles No differential attentional blink in dyslexia after controlling for baseline sensitivity. Vision Res. 2008 May 6; Authors: Badcock NA, Hogben JH, Fletcher JF Previous research has associated a prolonged attentional blink (AB) with adult dyslexia [Hari, R., Valta, M., & Uutela, K. (1999). Prolonged attentional dwell time in...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 May 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 4 of 48
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Asymmetry of voice onset time-processing in adult developmental dyslexics.
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Asymmetry of voice onset time-processing in adult developmental dyslexics. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 May 2; Authors: Giraud K, Trébuchon-Dafonseca A, Démonet JF, Habib M, Liégeois-Chauvel C OBJECTIVE: The human auditory cortex codes speech temporally according to sequential acoustico-phonetic cues like the voice onset time (VOT). This coding is predominantly left-lateralized in...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 2 May 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 5 of 48
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The incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in kuwait
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This paper investigates the incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait. A total of 91 children/young adults from 8 juvenile delinquent welfare centres across Kuwait were interviewed and tested. A measure of non-verbal reasoning ability was used to exclude those with low general ability. The remaining 53 participants were...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 24 Apr 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 6 of 48
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Dyslexia: a review of two theories
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Clinical and Experimental Optometry, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles. Optometrists will frequently see patients, who may have a diagnosis or a suspected diagnosis of dyslexia (specific reading disorder) and will need to manage and counsel such patients. There are many propounded theories on the cause(s) of dyslexia. ... (Source:...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:47:08 am
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Dyslexia - news item 7 of 48
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Cognitive subtypes of dyslexia.
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Related Articles Cognitive subtypes of dyslexia. Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars). 2008;68(1):73-89 Authors: Heim S, Tschierse J, Amunts K, Wilms M, Vossel S, Willmes K, Grabowska A, Huber W Different theories conceptualise dyslexia as either a phonological, attentional, auditory, magnocellular, or automatisation deficit. Such heterogeneity suggests the existence of yet unrecognised...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 19 Apr 2008 8:34:22 am
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Neuromotor, cognitive, language and behavioural outcome in children born following ivf or icsi-a systematic review
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BACKGROUND The effect of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) on the developing human brain is unclear. The objective of this study is to evaluate neurodevelopmental (ND) outcome of children born following these techniques. METHODS This systematic review includes studies which compare a group of children born...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 14 Apr 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 9 of 48
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Study: dyslexia differs by child's language
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Dyslexia affects different parts of children's brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese. That finding, ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Apr 2008 5:01:47 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 10 of 48
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Dyslexia differs by language: study
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Dyslexia affects different parts of children's brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese. (Source: CTV Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Apr 2008 6:39:49 am
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Dyslexia - news item 11 of 48
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[neuroscience] from the cover: a structural-functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of chinese readers
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Developmental dyslexia is a neurobiologically based disorder that affects 5–17% of school children and is characterized by a severe impairment... (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Apr 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 12 of 48
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Study: dyslexia differs by language
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dyslexia affects different parts of children's brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese. That finding, reported in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, means that therapists may need to seek different methods of assisting dyslexic children from different...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Apr 2008 3:06:21 am
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Dyslexia - news item 13 of 48
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Dyslexia affects brain according to language
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Read full story for latest details. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 7 Apr 2008 8:49:32 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 14 of 48
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Identical neural risk factors predict cognitive deficit in dyslexia and schizophrenia.
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In previous work, the authors found that an anatomical risk index created from the combination of 7 neuroanatomical measures predicted reading and oral language skills in individuals with learning disabilities. Individuals with small auditory brain structures and reduced asymmetry had more deficits than those with large structures and exaggerated asymmetry....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 11 Mar 2008 6:14:45 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 15 of 48
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Sequential or simultaneous visual processing deficit in developmental dyslexia?
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Sequential or simultaneous visual processing deficit in developmental dyslexia? Vision Res. 2008 Mar 8; Authors: Lassus-Sangosse D, N'guyen-Morel MA, Valdois S The ability of dyslexic children with or without phonological problems to process simultaneous and sequential visual information was assessed using two tasks requiring the oral report of simultaneously or...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 8 Mar 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 16 of 48
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Low-level defective processing of non-verbal sounds in dyslexic children
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We compared processing of non-verbal auditory stimuli by dyslexic and non-dyslexic children using electrophysiological methods. The study included 39 children (17 with dyslexia plus 22 controls) assessed via frontal, central, parietal, and temporal electrodes. As an extension of previous P300 event-related potential studies, we analysed variations in the power values...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 6 Mar 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 17 of 48
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South africa: learning disorder 'miracle cure' in spotlight
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MIRACLE cure or expensive sham, the jury is out on the Dore P rogram -- which promises "astounding" and "long-term" results for learning difficulties from dyslexia and dyspraxia to autism -- that has reached SA. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 25 Feb 2008 7:12:36 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 18 of 48
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Spatial cueing deficits in dyslexia reflect generalised difficulties with attentional selection. - roach nw, hogben jh.
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Traditionally, explanations of spatial cueing effects posit the operation of orienting mechanisms that act to reposition the spatial locus of attention. This process is often viewed to be analogous to the movement of an attentional 'spotlight' across the v... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sun, 24 Feb 2008 7:45:37 am
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Dyslexia - news item 19 of 48
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The double-deficit hypothesis in spanish developmental dyslexia.
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Page: 46DOI: 10.1097/01.adt.0000311415.69966.76Authors: Jimenez, Juan E. PhD; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel PhD; Rodriguez, Cristina PhD; Guzman, Remedios PhD; Diaz, Alicia PhD; Ortiz, Rosario PhD (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 16 Feb 2008 7:36:03 am
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Dyslexia - news item 20 of 48
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Morphological awareness skills of english language learners and children with dyslexia.
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Page: 15DOI: 10.1097/01.adt.0000311413.75804.60Authors: Siegel, Linda S. PhD (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 16 Feb 2008 7:36:03 am
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Dyslexia - news item 21 of 48
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Precursors of dyslexia in early conversational turn exchange.
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Page: 5DOI: 10.1097/01.adt.0000311412.68180.daAuthors: Smith, Allan B. PhD; Locke, John L. PhD; Farkas, Laurie MA (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 16 Feb 2008 7:36:03 am
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Dyslexia - news item 22 of 48
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Learning disabilities linked to primary progressive aphasia
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ndividuals with primary progressive aphasia and their first-degree relatives are more likely to have a history of learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 12 Feb 2008 3:45:24 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 23 of 48
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Speed of processing and reading disability: a cross-linguistic investigation of dyslexia and borderline intellectual functioning.
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Related Articles Speed of processing and reading disability: A cross-linguistic investigation of dyslexia and borderline intellectual functioning. Cognition. 2008 Feb 11; Authors: Bonifacci P, Snowling MJ English and Italian children with dyslexia were compared with children with reading difficulties associated with low-IQ on tests of simple and choice RT, and...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 11 Feb 2008 4:00:00 am
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Original contribution: increased frequency of learning disability in patients with primary progressive aphasia and their first-degree relatives
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Background Although risk factors for Alzheimer disease have been well studied, much less is known about risk factors for primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Objective To demonstrate that learning disabilities (LDs) are more common in patients with PPA and their first-degree family members. Design, Setting, and Patients Self-report endorsement of an...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 11 Feb 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 25 of 48
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Supporting brain imaging studies of children with autism and dyslexia
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Two researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research will head an ambitious new project to study the origins of autism and dyslexia, supported by a $8.5M grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation. The project leaders, Nancy Kanwisher and John Gabrieli, are prominent experts in neuroimaging and human brain development.Autism...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 26 of 48
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Meandering through dyslexia
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Meandering through dyslexia Nature Neuroscience 11, 121 (2008). doi:10.1038/nn0208-121 Author: Richard Wise (Source: Nature Neuroscience)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 28 Jan 2008 6:53:33 pm
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Crowding-an essential bottleneck for object recognition: a mini-review.
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Related Articles Crowding-An essential bottleneck for object recognition: A mini-review. Vision Res. 2008 Jan 26; Authors: Levi DM Crowding, generally defined as the deleterious influence of nearby contours on visual discrimination, is ubiquitous in spatial vision. Crowding impairs the ability to recognize objects in clutter. It has been extensively studied...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 26 Jan 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 28 of 48
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Children at familial risk of dyslexia: practical implications from an at-risk study
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles. A longitudinal study was conducted of 50 at-risk poor readers who were seen at four assessment points between the ages of three years and nine months and 12–13 years. This provided a wealth of data about the incidence of...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 23 Jan 2008 8:17:23 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 29 of 48
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Hemispheric dissociation and dyslexia in a computational model of reading.
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Related Articles Hemispheric dissociation and dyslexia in a computational model of reading. Brain Lang. 2008 Jan 19; Authors: Monaghan P, Shillcock R There are several causal explanations for dyslexia, drawing on distinctions between dyslexics and control groups at genetic, biological, or cognitive levels of description. However, few theories explicitly bridge...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 19 Jan 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 30 of 48
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Modelling relations between sensory processing, speech perception, orthographic and phonological ability, and literacy achievement.
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Related Articles Modelling relations between sensory processing, speech perception, orthographic and phonological ability, and literacy achievement. Brain Lang. 2008 Jan 17; Authors: Boets B, Wouters J, van Wieringen A, De Smedt B, Ghesquière P The general magnocellular theory postulates that dyslexia is the consequence of a multimodal deficit in the...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 17 Jan 2008 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 31 of 48
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Visual processing characteristics of children with meares–irlen syndrome
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Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 35-46, January 2008. AbstractThe potential role of visual processing deficits in reading difficulty was brought to public attention by claims that a large proportion of children with dyslexia suffer from a perceptual dysfunction currently referred to as Meares–Irlen syndrome (... (Source: Ophthalmic...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 14 Jan 2008 6:36:28 pm
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High number of entrepreneurs in the uk and us suffer from dyslexia
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A staggering 35% of US entrepreneurs suffer from dyslexia, compared to 20% in the UK, a ground-breaking study by Julie Logan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Cass Business School, reveals. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 9 Jan 2008 9:30:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 33 of 48
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I am not stupid, i have dyslexia.
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Related Articles I am not stupid, I have dyslexia. Nurs Stand. 2008 Jan 2-8;22(17):61 Authors: PMID: 18240820 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing Standard)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 1 Jan 2008 5:00:00 am
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A 5-month open study with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in dyslexia
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Journal of Medicinal Food Dec 2007, Vol. 10, No. 4: 662-666. This open pilot study investigated effects of a docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-rich supplement on learning ability in a group of 20 dyslexic children in Sweden. Children formally diagnosed as dyslexic took eight capsules per day of a long-chain ... (Source: Journal...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:50:21 pm
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Dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts
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Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency -- slow and choppy reading -- may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to a study by Harvard researchers. Additional research topics at Children's health More research news at Consumer information (Source: Harvard Medicine)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:14:16 pm
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The significance of dyslexia screening for the assessment of dementia in older people
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Dyslexia and Dementia are disorders that share cognitive impairments in attention, language, and working memory. It is therefore possible that the presence of dyslexia may influence the assessment of the severity of dementia and potentially lead to the development of atypical forms of dementia. The present study investigated the prevalence...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 10 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 37 of 48
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Spatial cueing deficits in dyslexia reflect generalised difficulties with attentional selection.
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Spatial cueing deficits in dyslexia reflect generalised difficulties with attentional selection. Vision Res. 2007 Dec 7; Authors: Roach NW, Hogben JH Traditionally, explanations of spatial cueing effects posit the operation of orienting mechanisms that act to reposition the spatial locus of attention. This process is often viewed to be analogous...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 7 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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Reading fluency may be linked to white-matter brain defects
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A new study implicates defects in brain white matter in impaired reading fluency, seen both in people with dyslexia and patients with a rare genetic brain condition called periventricular nodular heterotopia. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 6 Dec 2007 5:39:25 pm
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Growing up with dyslexia: interviews with teenagers and young adults
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Interviews with 75 teenagers and young adults were performed to investigate how young people with dyslexia experienced school in terms of well-being, educational achievement, self-esteem, peer relations and belief in their future. Results from earlier studies suggest that secondary emotional problems are common. The first six grades in school were...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 6 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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Brain structure implicated in dyslexia-like reading problem
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BOSTON -- The inability to read quickly may stem from structural abnormalities in the white matter of the brain, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 Dec 2007 2:32:05 pm
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Brain abnormalities discovered in people who have trouble reading fast
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Some people who have problems reading quickly appear to have abnormalities in the white matter of their brains, according to research published in the December 4, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say these findings provide a model to better understand ways...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 Dec 2007 7:00:00 am
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Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts
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Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency -- slow and choppy reading -- may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 Dec 2007 7:00:00 am
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Nerve disorganization may spur form of dyslexia
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(Source: Dr. Koop News Articles)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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Visual phenotype in williams-beuren syndrome challenges magnocellular theories explaining human neurodevelopmental visual cortical disorders
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Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), a neurodevelopmental genetic disorder whose manifestations include visuospatial impairment, provides a unique model to link genetically determined loss of neural cell populations at different levels of the nervous system with neural circuits and visual behavior. Given that several of the genes deleted in WBS are also involved...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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A structural basis for reading fluency: white matter defects in a genetic brain malformation
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Background: Multiple lines of evidence have suggested that developmental dyslexia may be associated with abnormalities of neuronal migration or axonal connectivity. In patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia—a rare genetic brain malformation characterized by misplaced nodules of gray matter along the lateral ventricles—a specific and unexpected reading disability is present, despite...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 3 Dec 2007 4:00:00 am
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Technology into practice: young people's, parents' and nurses' perceptions of wisecare+.
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Related Articles Technology into practice: young people's, parents' and nurses' perceptions of WISECARE+. Paediatr Nurs. 2007 Dec;19(10):31-4 Authors: Gibson F, Miller M, Kearney N Technology is a central aspect of young people's lives, with the internet and mobile phone technology providing the preferred means of communication. This pilot explored perceptions...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 1 Dec 2007 5:00:00 am
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Impaired tuning of a fast occipito-temporal response for print in dyslexic children learning to read
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Developmental dyslexia is defined as a disorder of learning to read. It is thus critical to examine the neural processes that impair learning to read during the early phase of reading acquisition, before compensatory mechanisms are adapted by older readers with dyslexia. Using electroencephalography-based event-related imaging, we investigated how tuning...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 30 Nov 2007 4:00:00 am
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Poor binocular coordination of saccades in dyslexic children
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Abstract Aim To examine the quality of binocular coordination of saccades in dyslexic children in single word reading and in a task requiring fixation of single LED. Methods Eighteen children with dyslexia (11.4 � 2 years old) and 13 non-dyslexic children of matched age were studied. Horizontal saccades from both eyes were recorded with a...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 29 Nov 2007 3:39:00 pm
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