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Are balance problems connected to reading speed or the familial risk of dyslexia?

Viholainen H, Aro M, Ahonen T, Crawford S, Cantell M, Kooistra L

Department of Education, Special Education, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. helena.viholainen@nmi.fi

Published 15 March 2011 in Dev Med Child Neurol, 53(4): 350-3.
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Articles on Dyslexia published 11 January 2011:

Brain activity during processing objects and pseudo-objects: comparison between adult regular and dyslexic readers.   Clin Neurophysiol, 122(2): 284-98.

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Brain activity during processing objects and pseudo-objects: comparison between adult regular and dyslexic readers.   Clin Neurophysiol, 122(2): 284-98.

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Articles on Dyslexia published 14 December 2010:

The dyslexia-associated KIAA0319 protein undergoes proteolytic processing with {gamma}-secretase-independent intramembrane cleavage.   J Biol Chem, 285(51): 40148-62.

The KIAA0319 gene has been associated with reading disability in several studies. It encodes a plasma membrane protein with a large, highly glycosylated, extracellular domain. This protein is proposed to function in adhesion and attachment and thought to play an important role during neuronal migration in the developing brain. We have previously proposed that endocytosis of this protein could constitute an important mechanism to regulate its function. Here we show that KIAA0319 undergoes ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Dyslexia published 22 October 2010:

Language-universal sensory deficits in developmental dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese.   J Cogn Neurosci, 23(2): 325-37.

Studies in sensory neuroscience reveal the critical importance of accurate sensory perception for cognitive development. There is considerable debate concerning the possible sensory correlates of phonological processing, the primary cognitive risk factor for developmental dyslexia. Across languages, children with dyslexia have a specific difficulty with the neural representation of the phonological structure of speech. The identification of a robust sensory marker of phonological difficulties ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Language-universal sensory deficits in developmental dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese.   J Cogn Neurosci, 23(2): 325-37.

Studies in sensory neuroscience reveal the critical importance of accurate sensory perception for cognitive development. There is considerable debate concerning the possible sensory correlates of phonological processing, the primary cognitive risk factor for developmental dyslexia. Across languages, children with dyslexia have a specific difficulty with the neural representation of the phonological structure of speech. The identification of a robust sensory marker of phonological difficulties ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Dyslexia published 5 October 2010:

Gender, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and reading disability in a population-based birth cohort.   Pediatrics, 126(4): e788-95.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of reading disability (RD) among children with and without research-identified attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), separately according to gender, in a population-based birth cohort. METHOD: Subjects included all children born in 1976-1982 remaining in Rochester, Minnesota, after 5 years of age (n=5718). Information from medical, school, and private tutorial records was abstracted. Cumulative incidence of RD, by any of 3 RD formulas, in ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Dyslexia published 27 September 2010:

Clinical neurophysiology of visual and auditory processing in dyslexia: a review.   Clin Neurophysiol, 121(11): 1794-809.

Neurophysiological studies on children and adults with dyslexia provide a deeper understanding of how visual and auditory processing in dyslexia might relate to reading deficits. The goal of this review is to provide an overview of research findings in the last two decades on motion related and contrast sensitivity visual evoked potentials and on auditory event related potentials to basic tone and speech sound processing in dyslexia. These results are particularly relevant for three important ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Dyslexia published 14 September 2010:

Cognitive levels of performance account for hemispheric lateralisation effects in dyslexic and normally reading children.   Neuroimage, 53(4): 1346-58.

Recent theories of developmental dyslexia explain reading deficits in terms of deficient phonological awareness, attention, visual and auditory processing, or automaticity. Since dyslexia has a neurobiological basis, the question arises how the reader's proficiency in these cognitive variables affects the brain regions involved in visual word recognition. This question was addressed in two fMRI experiments with 19 normally reading children (Experiment 1) and 19 children with dyslexia ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

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