Early Brain Development in Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Related Developmental Disorders
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2023) | Viewed by 523
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the first theories on a mechanism for developmental dyslexia posited neuronal migration anomalies in early brain development (Galaburda and Kemper, 1979; Galaburda et al., 1985). At the time, methods to investigate this hypothesis were limited and only correlational evidence was found. Critics argued that the studies lacked rigorous methods and the findings were not specific to dyslexia (Guidi et al., 2018). Given recent advances in neuroimaging that allow for prenatal and perinatal studies in vivo and in vitro, we are interested in understanding how early brain developmental anomalies influence learning in childhood.
This Special Issue will highlight diverse avenues of research on early brain development and its connection to learning disorders, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and related disorders. Areas of particular interest include studies with cognitive neuroscience methods, longitudinal datasets, large sample sizes and multi-modal data. Study design may be a retrospective analysis of a seemingly unrelated cohort, e.g., children with prenatal congenital heart defects.
Dr. Christa L. Watson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dyslexia
- dysgraphia
- dyscalculia
- ADHD
- prenatal
- perinatal
- brain
- development
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