Dyslexia-Specific Brain Activation Profile Beco…

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• Author: jhu.edu
• Full Title: Dyslexia-Specific Brain Activation Profile Becomes Normal Following Successful Remedial Training
• Category: #articles
• Summary:: Children with dyslexia initially show abnormal brain activation patterns, particularly in the left superior temporal gyrus, which is important for phonologic processing. After intensive reading intervention, these children exhibited significant improvements in brain activation and reading skills, normalizing their activation profiles. This suggests that effective training can help rewire the brain areas involved in reading, aligning them more closely with those of non-dyslexic peers.
• URL: https://oce-ovid-com.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/article/00006114-200204230-00015/HTML

Highlights

• These findings suggest that the deficit in functional brain organization underlying dyslexia can be reversed after sufficiently intense intervention lasting as little as 2 months, and are consistent with current proposals that reading difficulties in many children represent a variation of normal development that can be altered by intensive intervention. (View Highlight)