Neurobiology of dyslexia

ES Norton, SD Beach, JDE Gabrieli - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Neuroimaging is identifying brain differences related to causes of dyslexia.•Brain
bases of specific aspects of dyslexia have been better identified.•Genetics may bridge study …

Neuroanatomy of developmental dyslexia: Pitfalls and promise

F Ramus, I Altarelli, K Jednoróg, J Zhao… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Investigations into the neuroanatomical bases of developmental dyslexia have now
spanned more than 40 years, starting with the post-mortem examination of a few individual …

CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls

H Stefansson, A Meyer-Lindenberg, S Steinberg… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
In a small fraction of patients with schizophrenia or autism, alleles of copy-number variants
(CNVs) in their genomes are probably the strongest factors contributing to the pathogenesis …

Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages

JG Rueckl, PM Paz-Alonso, PJ Molfese, WJ Kuo… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful
literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems …

Distinct regions of the cerebellum show gray matter decreases in autism, ADHD, and developmental dyslexia

CJ Stoodley - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Differences in cerebellar structure have been identified in autism spectrum disorder (ASD),
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and developmental dyslexia. However, it is …

Asymmetry in the central nervous system: A clinical neuroscience perspective

A Mundorf, J Peterburs, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent large-scale neuroimaging studies suggest that most parts of the human brain show
structural differences between the left and the right hemisphere. Such structural hemispheric …

Reintroducing dyslexia: Early identification and implications for pediatric practice

J Sanfilippo, M Ness, Y Petscher, L Rappaport… - …, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Dyslexia is a common learning disorder that renders children susceptible to poor health
outcomes and many elements of socioeconomic difficulty. It is commonly undiagnosed until …

Dyslexic brain activation abnormalities in deep and shallow orthographies: A meta‐analysis of 28 functional neuroimaging studies

A Martin, M Kronbichler, F Richlan - Human brain map**, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We used coordinate‐based meta‐analysis to objectively quantify commonalities and
differences of dyslexic functional brain abnormalities between alphabetic languages …

Socioeconomic status and reading disability: Neuroanatomy and plasticity in response to intervention

RR Romeo, JA Christodoulou, KK Halverson… - Cerebral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although reading disability (RD) and socioeconomic status (SES) are independently
associated with variation in reading ability and brain structure/function, the joint influence of …

Wernicke's area revisited: parallel streams and word processing

I DeWitt, JP Rauschecker - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
Auditory word-form recognition was originally proposed by Wernicke to occur within left
superior temporal gyrus (STG), later further specified to be in posterior STG. To account for …