Neurobiological Approaches on Brains of Children with Dyslexia. Review

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1003-1024

  Caylak, Emrah ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Dyslexia; electrophysiological; functional MRI (fMRI); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURORADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649514877     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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