ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the cost of research that has been undertaken thus far, and the difficulties of raising money for such research. It examines the value of research into the workings of the brain and neuroscience, and how this has potentially benefited a range of difficulties that go far beyond the remit of information processing differences: genetics, hearing, immunology, etc. The chapter introduces the use of technology, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and electroencephalograms, making research into dyslexia far more reliable than the largely qualitative research conducted in the past. One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to research the workings of the brain, which has long been an intriguing mystery to humans. The brain is a unique organ in the human body and the one most admired and most questioned over the centuries, and probably the most enigmatic: it has been described as science’s ultimate frontier.
