Dyslexia and Neuroscience

Thirty years ago, the groundbreaking Geschwind-Galaburda hypothesis defined the field of dyslexia, revealing and analyzing the complex associations among brain development, hormones, immune activity, and brain lateralization. This important volume revisits the hypothesis three decades later and explores key questions: What have we learned since then, and what still needs to be investigated?

Based on presentations from the 2016 Extraordinary Brain Symposium--and co-edited by one of the authors of the original hypothesis--this book synthesizes current dyslexia findings from more than 30 top researchers and practitioners. The contributors share diverse perspectives, concerns, challenges, and solutions, with brief jargon-free summaries at the beginning of each chapter to make the book accessible to a wider audience. Each chapter also points to research gaps and remaining questions to help shape future innovations from the next generation of researchers. A landmark addition to the literature on dyslexia and neuroscience, this forward-thinking volume should be on the shelf of every researcher and graduate student whose work focuses on neuroscience and dyslexia.

EXPLORE CURRENT FINDINGS ON

the clinical and sociological aspects of dyslexia early atypical brain development in developmental dyslexiareading in children with developmental disordersbrain asymmetries and sex differences in developmental dyslexiasex differences in cognition and learningintergenerational transmission of reading and reading brain networksanimal models of early neural disruptionthe genetic factors that underlie handedness and left hemisphere language dominancethe genetics of specific reading disabilityand more essential dyslexia topics

With contributions by

David UrionJohn L.R. RubensteinGeert J. de VriesThomas G. O'ConnorTuong-Vi NguyenMargaret M. McCarthyFranck RamusEileen LudersDavid S. HongR. Holly FitchLaurie CuttingElena GrigorenkoSebastian Ocklenburg Silvia ParacchiniSergey Kornilov Heidi FeldmanNicole Landiand more