For functionalists, of course, the neurological read-out gives us everything there is; but many of us are not so sure.
Beneath a column headed "Injury or Illness" stretched a dozen rows, each reading "Alleged Neurological Injury" — one for each worker in the Conover plant sickened in the first three months of the year.
Exclusion criteria were lifetime comorbidity with any other psychiatric disorder, except for conduct/oppositional defiant disorder (present in one patient), as well as learning disability and specific reading disorder, neurological abnormalities, epilepsy, drug or substance abuse, and previous exposure to stimulant medication.
None reported a history of reading difficulties or neurological problems.
These control-group children had to satisfy the following criteria: (1) no history of reading difficulty, (2) no neurological symptoms or ophtalmological pathology, and (3) no visual stress or difficulties with near vision.
Dehaene discusses neurological, cognitive, evolutionary, and cultural aspects of reading.
And they aren't always taught everything they need to know to handle the full range of disabilities they face in the classroom, or even, Gillis said, how to teach reading to children with different neurological obstacles.
By some estimates, about one in seven Americans has a learning disability, a neurological disorder that can make a basic task like reading, writing or organizing information more difficult than usual.
The research is only the beginning of a 5-year study that will track the same children across time to conclude whether neurological encoding of speech in children can indeed predict reading disorders, Kraus says.
The theoretical framework of the dual-route cascade (DRC) model enables us to specify the preserved and damaged reading 'modules' of neurological patients, and allows us to make quantitative predictions about reading performance in normal readers [1], [2], [3].
