Dyslexic Kids Show Brain Changes at an Early Age

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Young children at risk for developing dyslexia showed abnormalities on functional MRI (fMRI) brain scans even before they began learning to read, researchers found.

Children who have a family history of developmental dyslexia showed significantly lower activation of the bilateral occipitotemporal and left temporoparietal regions (P<0.005) on fMRI than controls, according to Nadine Gaab, MD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues.

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