Among those questions: What are some of the specific factors that might ameliorate or exacerbate the effects of dyslexia over a lifetime? What do the participants wish they had known about their dyslexia early on? They were among the first researchers to describe a neural signature for dyslexia, which is characterized by inefficient functioning of neural systems for skilled, fluent reading. People with dyslexia have trouble separating words into phonemes, the sounds that correspond with each part of a word. But people with dyslexia hear the word only in its entirety: “dog.”“Perhaps the most important contribution of brain imaging to dyslexia is that it made visible this previously hidden disability,” said Bennett, who was chief of pediatric neurology at Yale for 40 years.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2018 14:27 UTC