Altered structural connectivity of the left visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia

C Müller-Axt, A Anwander, K von Kriegstein - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
… connections between the sensory thalamus and cortex in developmental dyslexia. The results
… novel evidence for the importance of cortico-thalamic interactions in explaining dyslexia. …

Dysfunction of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia

C Müller-Axt, L Kauffmann, C Eichner, K von Kriegstein - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is one of the most common learning disorders, affecting …
alterations in a specific subdivision of the visual 11 thalamus – the magnocellular LGN (M-LGN). …

Dysfunction of the visual sensory thalamus in developmental dyslexia

C Müller-Axt, L Kauffmann, C Eichner, K von Kriegstein - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
… changes in-vivo and post-mortem (5, 9, 16), the aberrant left-hemispheric cortico-thalamic
that thalamic changes in the visual processing pathway in DD may be primarily left-lateralized. …

Is developmental dyslexia due to a visual and not a phonological impairment?

R Werth - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is a widely held belief that developmental dyslexia (DD) is a phonological disorder in … In
contrast, the magnocellular theory of dyslexia assumes that DD is a visual disorder caused by …

The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia

J Stein - Reading and dyslexia: From basic functions to higher …, 2018 - Springer
thalamus, thence to the visual cortex which is situated on the back of the occipital cortex at
the very back of the brain. 10% of these ganglion cells are much larger than the others; these …

Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia

B Díaz, F Hintz, SJ Kiebel… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
… Two groups of adult German speakers participated in the study; one group included 14
participants with developmental dyslexia and the other included 14 controls (SI Methods and …

Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia

N Tschentscher, A Ruisinger, H Blank… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Developmental dyslexia is characterized by the inability to … of developmental dyslexia, which
we will refer to as dyslexia in the … dyslexia-related alterations in subcortical regions in the left

What is developmental dyslexia?

J Stein - Brain sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
… are less sensitive to AM/FM modulations [70], and histological examination of large cells in
the left auditory thalamic nucleus, the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), which is equivalent …

Dyslexia: the role of vision and visual attention

J Stein - Current developmental disorders reports, 2014 - Springer
… Both the M and P ganglion cells project to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the
thalamus en route to the primary visual (striate-V1) cortex, which is situated at the back of the …

[HTML][HTML] V1-bypassing thalamo-cortical visual circuits in blindsight and developmental dyslexia

S Rima, MC Schmid - Current Opinion in Physiology, 2020 - Elsevier
… While it is largely accepted that the SC has a critical function in mediating blindsight by
relaying visual signals to cortex [32,39], the thalamic relays via LGN versus pulvinar remain a …