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neural mechanisms of developmental dyslexia

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Neuroscientist Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein from TU Dresden and an international team of experts now show in a recently published study that people with dyslexia have a weakly developed structure that is not located in the cerebral cortex, but at a subcortical processing stage; namely the white matter connectivity between the left auditory motion-sensitive planum temporale (mPT) and the left auditory thalamus (medial geniculate body. MGB).


Original publication: “Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia” Nadja Tschentscher, Anja Ruisinger, Helen Blank, Begoña Díaz and Katharina von Kriegstein: Journal of Neuroscience 14 January 2019, 1435-18; DOI:

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Does telling and re-telling improve writing?

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In new research conducted by Trina Spencer and Douglas Petersen, the hypothesis being tested is if an improvement in oral narration and language would lead to an improvement of writing skills.

The results support the claim that progress in writing can be made in the absence of typical transcription instruction.

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Does dyslexia gene protect against concussions?

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Read the article in the link for today for the outcome of this remarkable research.

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“In dyslexia, you tend to have less defined wiring for processing spoken and written language,” Breiter said. “Dyslexics have a problem with that. Their wiring is more diffuse in this system. Future studies could directly test if diffuse wiring is better able to absorb a shock wave than clearly defined wiring.”

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