Physiology Of Dyslexia

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Dyslexia is a developmental disorder, which is marked by difficulty reading, writing, and sometimes pronouncing words. They symptoms tend to revolve around either the switching of letters in the words, or by the jumbling of the whole words in a sentence. Research into this problem has been varied, and many the many approaches to figuring out the etiology of dyslexia, reflect the many theories surrounding it. One tactic is scanning the brain itself, and looking for structural differences, or deficiencies in neural connectivity. This can be done in many ways, MRI being one of them. A review of the many findings in MRI research is the subject of the article by Vandermosten et al. (2016) The most prominent theories on the etiology of dyslexia

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