Structural brain alterations associated with dyslexia predate reading onset

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 742-749

  Raschle, Nora Maria ^a   Chang, Maria ^a   Gaab, Nadine ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Dyslexia; Family history; FMRI; Reading; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINGUAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING;

EID: 79959688590     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.055     Document Type: Article

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