What causes dyslexia? Identifying the causes and effective compensatory therapy

What causes dyslexia?: comment on Goswami.

Finding an underlying deficit that links the disparate impairments associated with dyslexia would be major breakthrough. In a recent article in TiCS, Goswami [1] offers a viable candidate for such a deficit – and has done a remarkable job of finding links that are plausible if still mostly circumstantial. Her stimulating article raises numerous directions for future research. The epidemiology o...

Research on causes of dyslexia

Research by psychology professor Marcel Just indicates that brain activity not only reflects a child's reading ability, but also sheds light on the effectiveness of reading instruction. In this study, Just and collaborators Ann Meyler and Timothy Keller at Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging teamed up with researchers from Stanford University. Just and his team were interested ...

Tinnitus: identifying the ominous causes.

constant, pulsatile, ringing in her left ear that had been ongoing for 12 months. She had no history of head trauma, surgery, hypertension or cardiovascular disorders. The patient was in no distress and appeared to be otherwise healthy. Findings on otoscopy and examination of the cranial nerves were unremarkable. Given the patient’s history of unilateral, pulsatile tinnitus, we auscultated her ...

Identifying the Causes of Behavior

FDI & Growth : What Causes What ?

The paper examines the causal relationship between FDI and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables. We apply our methodology, based on the Toda-Yamamoto test for causality, to time-series data covering the period 19692000 for three developing countries, namely Chile, Malaysia and Thailand, all of them major rec...