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Development of Tract-Specific White Matter Pathways During Early Reading Development in At-Risk Children and Typical Controls.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 1 Apr 2017
Wang Yingying, Mauer Meaghan V, Raney Talia, Peysakhovich Barbara, Becker Bryce L C, Sliva Danielle D, Gaab Nadine
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Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a strong genetic basis. Previous studies observed white matter alterations in the left posterior brain regions in adults and school-age children with dyslexia. However, no study yet has examined the development of tract-specific white matter pathways from the pre-reading to the fluent reading stage in children at familial risk for dyslexia (FHD+) versus...
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