ReviewCurrent developmental disorders reports2014
Dyslexia: the Role of Vision and Visual Attention.
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- Auditory brainstem response deficits in learning disorders and developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Prismatic adaptation coupled with cognitive training as novel treatment for developmental dyslexia: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Improving sentence reading performance in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia by training based on visual attention span.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
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- Synergistic Geniculate and Cortical Dynamics Facilitate a Decorrelated Spatial Frequency Code in the Early Visual System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beyond reading and spelling: exploring intelligence profiles in individuals with dyslexia through a Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory lens.Health psychology report · 2026Article
- Multimodal investigation of the neurocognitive deficits underlying dyslexia in adulthood.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Sensory-Cognitive Profiles in Children with ADHD: Exploring Perceptual-Motor, Auditory, and Oculomotor Function.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of ADHD and LD with vision abnormalities among the children and adolescents in US, NHANES 1999-2004.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Distinct connectivity patterns between perception and attention-related brain networks characterize dyslexia: Machine learning applied to resting-state fMRI.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Immune-related visual dysfunction in thyroid eye disease: a combined orbital and brain neuroimaging study.European radiology · 2024Article
- Alterations in neural activation in the ventral frontoparietal network during complex magnocellular stimuli in developmental dyslexia associated with READ1 deletion.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2024Article
- Lamination, Borders, and Thalamic Projections of the Primary Visual Cortex in Human, Non-Human Primate, and Rodent Brains.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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- Fractal Phototherapy in Maximizing Retina and Brain Plasticity.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Article
- The Role of Visual Factors in Dyslexia.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- The Use of Chromagen Lenses in Different Ocular and Non-ocular Conditions: A Prospective Cohort Study.Cureus · 2022Article
- Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dyslexia is more than just difficulty with translating letters into sounds. Many dyslexics have problems with clearly seeing letters and their order. These difficulties may be caused by abnormal development of their visual "magnocellular" (M) nerve cells; these mediate the ability to rapidly identify letters and their order because they control visual guidance of attention and of eye fixations. Evidence for M cell impairment has been demonstrated at all levels of the visual system: in the retina, in the lateral geniculate nucleus, in the primary visual cortex and throughout the dorsal visuomotor "where" pathway forward from the visual cortex to the posterior parietal and prefrontal cortices. This abnormality destabilises visual perception; hence, its severity in individuals correlates with their reading deficit. Treatments that facilitate M function, such as viewing text through yellow or blue filters, can greatly increase reading progress in children with visual reading problems. M weakness may be caused by genetic vulnerability, which can disturb orderly migration of cortical neurones during development or possibly reduce uptake of omega-3 fatty acids, which are usually obtained from fish oils in the diet. For example, M cell membranes require replenishment of the omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid to maintain their rapid responses. Hence, supplementing some dyslexics' diets with DHA can greatly improve their M function and their reading.
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