ABSTRACT
The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery offers a state-of-the art examination of the neural components and functions involved in reading and in the possible sources of breakdown. Suggestions for intervention are introduced throughout the book.
The book is based on presentations at a summer 2004 symposium, which was part of an ongoing symposia series titled, “The Extraordinary Brain,” convened by The Dyslexia Foundation. The participants are top scholars in the multidisciplinary research programs related to the neuroscience of brain development in general and reading disorders in specific.
The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery will be important to researchers and scholars interested in dyslexia, as well as those interested in issues involving the cognitive consequences of unusual brain development. Graduate students looking at reading and reading disorders in schools of education and communication disorders will also find substantial new information.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section • I|101 pages
The Phenotype of Dyslexia
chapter Chapter • 1|15 pages
From the Sumerians to Images of the Reading Brain: Insights for Reading Theory and Intervention
chapter Chapter • 2|27 pages
Neurobiological Studies of Skilled and Impaired Reading: A Work in Progress
part Section • II|88 pages
The Genetics of Dyslexia and Cortical Development
part Section • III|98 pages
Animal Models of Cortical Development
chapter Chapter • 10|14 pages
Focal Malformations of Cortical Development: Epilepsy, Autism, and Dyslexia
chapter Chapter • 12|20 pages
What a Difference a Day Makes: Linking Timing to Mechanisms in Epileptogenic Microgyri
chapter Chapter • 13|16 pages
Structural and Functional Deficits in a Rat Model of Cortical Heterotopia
part Section • IV|66 pages
Brain Plasticity