Dyslexia in Medical News

BIDMC Dyslexia Research Lab celebrates 25th anniversary

BOSTON -- 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 ...

Brain Scans Shed Light on Dyslexia

Mismatch occurs between seeing letter and the sound it represents, study suggests THURSDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- New brain scans reveal more about how the minds of people with dyslexia work. The key problem seems to be a mismatch between seeing the letter and connecting it t...

MIT's McGovern Institute researchers awarded $8.5M to study brain basis of autism and dyslexia

Two researchers at MITs 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 neuroimagin...

Nerve Disorganization May Spur Form of Dyslexia

Brain scans show real differences, researchers say TUESDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain may cause a form of dyslexia marked by slow and choppy reading fluency, U.S. researchers report. There are different forms of dyslexia, which af...

Gene For Dyslexia Identified

'Nearer, my Dog, to thee?' - sounds odd? But it is a dyslexic's mode of writing where letters in words are often reversed.// The learning disability, dyslexia, has a genetic component, according to German researchers. And finding the causative gene could opens up ways for treatment. ...

Chromosome 6 has the Dyslexia Gene

Researchers at Yale University have discovered the 'DCDC2' gene associated with dyslexia. Dyslexia causes learning disabilities and affects millions of children around the world. // The gene called 'DCDC2' gene is located on human chromosome 6 according to the researchers. The researchers fou...

Chiropractic Care Helps Children With Learning Disorders and Dyslexia

A recent study, published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR), suggests that chiropractic care may offer significant benefits //to children suffering from learning disabilities and dyslexia. The research was conducted by Swiss chiropractor Yannick Pauli, DC, president of the...

Research Fund for FSU to Eradicate Dyslexia

The Federal Government has provided a grant of $6 million for the Florida State University to carry out a more detailed research work for dyslexia in children.// The schedule involves understanding, predicting, and prevention of the symptom. The grant will fund the creation of a National Ins...

Research finds new explanations for dyslexia

The dyslexic brain may have problems in forming perception categories for// printed letters and sounds, says a new study. This may lead to the dyslexics finding it difficult to filter out visual disturbances that may obscure the pattern of letters in front of them. The research by the scientis...

NFL Cardinals' Wide Receiver Larry Fitzgerald Promotes Vision Therapy

...nt of COVD states. "It is important to understand that vision therapy treats vision problems that interfere with reading and learning; we do not treat dyslexia or other learning disabilities." "It is unfortunate that many children struggle for years despite tutoring and other special services before t...

For Kids, Two Languages Can Be as Easy as One

... does result in discrete changes in 'wiring,'" said Marta Flaum, whose practice in Chappaqua, N.Y. specializes in diagnosing and helping children with dyslexia and other language handicaps. "It would make sense that learning a second language affects brain changes as well." However, Flaum said, "we know th...

Prop. 8 Challenged in Federal Court; Ted Olson & David Boies to Argue Case

...0) and New York Law School (2007). His awards include the Milton Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy, the Pinnacle Award from the International dyslexia Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the LD Access Foundation, the Outstanding Learning Disabled Achievers Award from the Lab School of Wa...

Writing Disorder May Be Common Among Kids

... Study finds rate as high as 14.7 percent in one Minnesota city TUESDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Though dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder are better known, another learning disability -- the inability to write properly -- strikes a significant number of chi...

Brain Balance(TM) Centers Picks Adam Kluger Public Relations (AKPR) to Help Promote New Book and Atlanta Event to Raise Awareness About Revolutionary New Way to Treat Learning Disorders; Atlantic Recording Artist/Country Music Star Zac Brown and Dr. Rober

...ogram(R), a revolutionary new approach to help children with Autism, AD/HD, dyslexia and other Neurological Disorders. For more than ten years, Dr. Rob...e Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program(TM) for Children with Autism, AD/HD, dyslexia and Other Neurological Disorders, ( Amazon.com: Disconnected Kids: The Grou...

CHADD to Host International Conference on AD/HD in Anaheim, CA; Olympian Bruce Jenner to Keynote

... Olympian Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Gold Medal Decathlon champion, will be this year's featured keynote speaker on Friday, November 14. Jenner, who has dyslexia and AD/HD, is very active in associations that focus on learning disabilities and children. Growing up in the 1950s and 60s, Jenner experienced firsth...

'Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Olympic Legends Mark Spitz and Bruce Jenner

...es with ADD and dyslexia, he serves as an advisory board member for several foundations for the learning and mentally disabled, including the National dyslexia Research Foundation and the Special Olympics. Previous episodes of Sharing Miracles have featured Olympic Gold Medal-winning diver Greg Louganis, wh...

Carnegie Mellon brain imaging study illustrates how remedial instruction helps poor readers

...sconception about dyslexia. There is a persistent but incorrect belief that dyslexia is primarily caused by difficulties in the visual perception of letters, le...etters like "p" and "d". However, such visual difficulties are the cause of dyslexia in only about 10 percent of the cases. The most common cause, accounting fo...

Genetic loci assigned for musical aptitude in Finnish families

...es affecting cell extension and migration during neural development. Interestingly, an overlapping region previously associated with genetic locus for dyslexia was found raising a question about common evolutionary background of music and language faculties. The results show that musical aptitude is likely t...

RHEI Pharmaceuticals Licenses Attental From MethaPharma (Vemedia Group) for Distribution Throughout Asia

...tiv for a fluid articulation. After some time, Benypro was launched for the prostate and Attental for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), dyslexia and concentration problems. MethaPharma is now part of the Vemedia group. For more information see http://www.vemediapharma.com . About RHEI Pharma...

Learning Disabilities May Presage Later Language Problems

... "This relationship may exist in only a small subgroup of persons with dyslexia without necessarily implying that the entire population with dyslexia or their family members are at higher risk of primary progressive aphasia,"...

Study raises questions about diagnosis, medical treatment of ADHD

...round the world. But the predisposition to ADHD is a normal distribution in attention and activity level, much like diabetes and glucose tolerance, or dyslexia and reading disability. "The continuous nature of liability to ADHD requires that we examine more carefully what environmental pressures may be ...

Scientists uncover how the brain controls what the eyes see

...f the object that is being viewed, Serences said. Findings from their study may further contribute to scientists understanding of disorders such as dyslexia -- a case in which individuals are thought to suffer from deficiencies in processing motion -- by providing information about the functional role that...

Sound training rewires dyslexic children's brains for reading

... Some children with dyslexia struggle to read because their brains aren't prope..., the finding may someday help clinicians diagnose dyslexia even before reading begins, and suggests new ways ...musical training. Children with developmental dyslexia confuse letters and syllables when they read. The ...

Massachusetts State Court Hears Suit by Breastfeeding Mother on Medical Licensing Exam

...DA). As shown in her court filings, Ms. Currier had been granted two days, rather than the one day usually available, to take her exam because she has dyslexia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Additional arrangements that the exam's sponsors have offered Ms. Currier include: -- Privacy, within...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

...indings will aid in the diagnosis and management of the disorder, through remedial teaching. Dyscalculia is just as prevalent in the population as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – around 5% of the population is affected. However, dyscalculia has not been given the same attention as ...

Is Your Child Dyslexic-Take a Ten-minute Test

...the right treatments and professional help.” A pilot project is currently being carried out at Aberdeen University to help trainee teachers to spot dyslexia in young pupils. THE GAPS test which will cost fifty pounds, takes about ten minutes and features a cartoon character, an alien called Bik. Th...

Chiropractic Care May Help Children With Learning Disorders

...ve abilities that are essential to learning.' Learning disorders and dyslexia affect between three and ten percent of school-aged children in the United ...ctivities, and family and peer relationships. 'Learning disorders and dyslexia are increasingly recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder,' he stated. '...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

... children, especially since an understanding of amusia may have broader implications. Researchers believe that congenital amusia has similarities with dyslexia and related disorders. These findings should contribute to understanding the origins of learning disorders – the genetic causes and their neural conse...

Dyslexia Gene Identified and Called "KIAA0319"

...ff University// have discovered the gene which is likely to be the cause of dyslexia in children. An analysis of 300 families where at least one child suffered from dyslexia was done to identify the gene. The gene has been called "KIAA0319". "...

Sleep Disorders Could Indicate Other Medical Problems

...show a high degree of ADD in patients with insomnia. Further testing showed some of these patients also suffered severe memory impairment, depression, dyslexia and illiteracy. Researchers also say that patients with sleep disorders who are not assessed for additional conditions may continue to suffer from ...

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

... dyslexia a most common learning disorder, affects nearly one in 24 people. People with dyslexia often have great difficulty learning to read, write and spell. dyslexia was found to have been linked to reduced activity ...