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Xavier Bosch, MD, PhD

JAMA. 2006;296:2664.

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Researchers from 9 European countries have teamed up to determine the genetic, neuroscientific, and behavioral factors implicated in dyslexia. Children recruited to participate in the different genetic, epidemiologic, and neuroimaging studies will come from many countries, "which should allow researchers to take account of the specific aspects of each language as well as the general causes of dyslexia," said Franck Ramus, PhD, the leader of the French group at the Laboratory of Cognitive Sciences and Psycholinguistics in Paris.

The Neurodys project, funded by the European Commission and launched in late September, is a 3-year multicenter and multidisciplinary collaboration among 15 top scientific and clinical research groups, representing scientists who have contributed to the field's knowledge of dyslexia in various European languages. The project covers the languages of most of the 2.5 million European dyslexic children.

Dyslexia, a complex learning disorder that affects reading and spelling, affects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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