September 10, 2024 by University of Edinburgh Genetic relationships between ten neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Credit: Molecular Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02649-8Scientists have shed new light on the genetic basis of dyslexia, showing how it overlaps with that of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study, led by the University of Edinburgh, is the first to...
Written by Karen Hovav, MD, FAAP | Analysis by Katie E. Golden, MDPublished on February 27, 2024 Key takeaways: Early signs of dyslexia can be seen before kindergarten. Some examples include trouble remembering nursery songs, trouble naming things, and speech delay.Testing for dyslexia can involve screening children as young as age 4 to see if...
Both ADHD and dyslexia are neurodevelopmental disorders that can affect academic performance and social interactions. A person can have one or both of these disorders. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia share some symptoms, including difficulty concentrating, poor time management, and poor memory. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), dyslexia and other learning disorders...
by University of Edinburgh Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia. Around a third of the 42 genetic variants identified have been previously linked to general cognitive ability and educational attainment. The researchers say their findings, published in Nature Genetics journal, aid...
by Bert Gambini, University at Buffalo Credit: CC0 Public Domain A University at Buffalo researcher’s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery which clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication. Though the division between literacy and...
Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF Memory and Aging Center. In the study, published online in Cortex, children with dyslexia who watched emotionally evocative videos showed increased physiological and behavioral responses when compared to children...
by Public Library of Science Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with dyslexia, according to a study published September 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Silvia Marchesotti and Anne-Lise Giraud of the University of Geneva, and colleagues. Dyslexia...
Dyslexia is a condition that interferes with a person’s ability to develop and use language skills. People tend to associate dyslexia with reading problems, but people with this condition can also have a hard time with some math problems, as well as with writing and pronouncing words. Dyslexia does not have anything to do with...
Experts intend to extract the components and elements that optimize the visual attention to use them in the creation of a new fun and entertaining software. A study conducted by BCBL, the Basque research center, reveals that action video games improve visual attention and reading ability, two deficits suffered by people with dyslexia. The...
The central area of dyslexic people’s retina may makes letters difficult to read People with ‘normal’ reading ability have circular cell arrangement in one eye But in a dyslexic, both eyes were found to have a symmetrical, circular pattern Scientists have found that dyslexics have an unusual pattern of cells in their eyes which makes...
