Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest Dyslexia News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/dyslexia/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/99684.php The national disability charity United Response has welcomed the publication of The Joint Committee of Human Rights report, 'A Life Like Any Other?' Chief Executive Su Sayer, has particularly welcomed the committee's recommendations on the need for a human rights based approach to healthcare, but has called for other issues such as a right to employment not to be overlooked. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/95880.php 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 and dyslexia are complex brain disorders that first appear in early childhood. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/95330.php K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., unveils an exciting product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90532.php 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 of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers' brains, making it difficult to integrate the information needed for rapid, "automatic" reading. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90531.php 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 in which the brain may have developed differently in people with learning disabilities. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/87170.php Some children with dyslexia struggle to read because their brains aren't properly wired to process fast-changing sounds, according to a brain-imaging study published this month in the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. The study found that sound training via computer exercises can literally rewire children's brains, correcting the sound processing problem and improving reading. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/85804.php In the 25 years since establishing the Dyslexia Research Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Albert Galaburda, MD, has witnessed a dramatic transformation in thinking among both scientists and the public. "Over the years, there have been a host of explanations offered to explain dyslexia," says Galaburda, Chief of the Division of Behavioral Neurology at BIDMC whose work has played a key role in influencing the field. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/81585.php 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. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/64393.php The New York Branch of The International Dyslexia Association will be holding its 34th Annual conference on Dyslexia & Related Learning Disabilities titled Closing The Gap Between Research and Practice on Monday, March 12 & Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis, New York, New York. The two day conference offers 107 sessions and 60 exhibitors. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/62082.php "Time" is the most popular noun in the English language, yet how would we tell time if 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 time. Now a UCLA study in the Feb. 1 edition of Neuron proposes a new model in which a series of physical changes to the brain's cells helps the organ to monitor the passage of time. Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/59027.php The dyslexic brain struggles to read because 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 language. Instead, the studies suggest that children with dyslexia have bad filters for irrelevant data. Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/54664.php 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 answer. Their work indicates that once you figure out your mother's voice is a good thing - most days - fairly significant changes occur in the sensory cortex, the part of the brain that responds to sound. Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/47069.php Florida State University has been awarded a $6-million grant from the federal government over five years to fund research efforts aimed at more effectively understanding, predicting and preventing the development of learning disabilities such as dyslexia in children, it was announced today. The grant will fund the creation of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center at FSU. Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37472.php 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 patterns of brain activity. Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/33233.php 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 important role in the occurrence of dyslexia. Scientists at the universities of Marburg, Würzburg and Bonn have been working on this question together with Swedish colleagues from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/32808.php 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 also found that a genetic alteration in DCDC2 leads to a disruption in the formation of brain circuits that make it possible to read. This genetic alteration is transmitted within families. Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/25593.php The dyslexic brain may have a general problem forming perceptual categories, including the templates for printed letters and speech sounds, say USC neuroscientists. This is reflected in a reduced ability to filter out visual "noise" that can obscure a pattern, the researchers suggest. Mon, 30 May 2005 13:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/25353.php 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 certain visual processes cause the spelling and reading woes commonly suffered by dyslexics. Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/23023.php About 450,000 children spread among 2,700 public school districts in 25 states (USA) all have something in common: They've used educational Fast ForWord software products developed from research that began in the lab of Rutgers-Newark professor of neuroscience Paula Tallal. Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/22292.php Learning disabilities such as dyslexia are believed to affect nearly one in 10 children. To better study them, a Northwestern University research team has developed a data-driven conceptual framework that links two well-established scientific concepts. In doing so, they also have developed a non-invasive diagnostic tool called BioMAP that can quickly identify children with learning disabilities. Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/22099.php Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a location on chromosome 2 that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords. The team from the University of Washington, headed by medical geneticists Dr. Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/20688.php Discovery offers hope for treatment of dyslexia - A gene which is likely to be one of the causes of dyslexia in children has been discovered by researchers at Cardiff University. They believe the major finding will give researchers a better understanding of what causes the brain disorder which disrupts reading and writing skills. Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/15544.php Adults suffering from dyslexia can benefit from tutoring in processing words, and their brains show changes that indicate neural modifications due to the training, researchers have found. Guinevere Eden and her colleagues said that their studies indicate that adult dyslexics can be helped by training. The findings are important, they wrote, because dyslexia accounts for 80% of all learning disabilities in the U.S. and U.K. Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/15542.php New research shows that phonics-based instruction can actually change brain activity in adults with dyslexia, resulting in significant improvements in reading. The findings from a collaborative study by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Georgetown University Medical Center were reported today in the journal Neuron. Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/5216.php Georgetown University Medical Center researchers today published the first ever fMRI study of hyperlexia, a rare condition in which children with some degree of autism display extremely precocious reading skills. Appearing in Neuron, the case study uncovers the neural mechanisms that underlie hyperlexia, and suggest that hyperlexia is the true opposite of the reading disability dyslexia.