http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/7334 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/slow-reading-dyslexia-tied-disorganized-brain-tracts <!--paging_filter--><p><a title="" href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dyslexia/DS00224">Dyslexia</a> marked by poor reading fluency — slow and choppy reading — may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers at <a title="" href="http://www.childrenshospital.org/">Children’s Hospital Boston</a>, <a title="" href="http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/sites/bidmc/home.asp">Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center</a> (BIDMC), and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the time the work was done.&nbsp; Their study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers’ brains that makes it difficult to integrate the information needed for rapid, “automatic” reading. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/slow-reading-dyslexia-tied-disorganized-brain-tracts">read more</a></p> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:29:31 -0500 404132862 20026 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu