Dyslexia

Dyslexia

• Description

Dyslexia, like many other psychiatric disorders, is diagnosed through behavioral criteria. It is commonly thought of as a reading impairment due to a problem with phonological decoding. Dyslexics have characteristic differences in minicolumn architecture which contrast sharply with the profile seen in ASD brains. Dyslexics have a decreased number of minicolumns, a larger gyral window, decreased local connections and greater long range connections.

Citations

1. Williams EL et. al. Autism and dyslexia: a spectrum of cognitive styles as defined by minicolumnar morphometry.Med Hypotheses. 2010 Jan;74(1):59-62. PMID 19713047

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Mini-columns