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A Gene Causing Dyslexia Found
Rovaani writes "A group of Finnish scientist have found a gene causing dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder among children and affects anywhere between 3 percent and 10 percent of the population."
...in other news: Dubya stops wearing jeans.
But how can ageing cause dyslexia? I thought people had it when they were young?
It has been known for over a century that dyslexia runs in families. It is common practise today to keep a particular eye on siblings of those with dyslexia in order to diagnose them quicker if they turn out also to have it.
All this means that it is obvious that there are genes that cause dyslexia. Also, this research has been done on a single family, which will likely only find a single cause of a problem that has many causes.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that this research is ongoing, it's just that it's of no real use, or news value.
Is it just me or after the decoding of the human genome there has been an increase in DNA discoveries such as this one? (I'm not very knowledgeable in DNA issues, be gentle with me. :) )
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Of course, this all hinges on whether or not you believe in 'gene theory', an as yet unproven thesis which cannot be fully scientifically validated until certain international restrictions on the subject of genetic experiments are lifted ...
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A remarkable number of people that are rated as geniuses have/had dyslexia
examples are:
Leonardo DaVinci
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison
and more here.
I wonder if they could poke the genius bit on but leave the learning difficulty out, or perhaps the different way of learning that dyslexics have makes a far better connected brain than us normal saps have
Info about the GIFT of dyslexia
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Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder among children and affects anywhere between 3 percent and 10 percent of the population.
And in some cases, parents urge doctors to diagnose dyslexia so the child gets 'special' treatment (e.g. more time at exams) at school resulting in better grades...
Yes, I know, there are children that really suffer from dyslexia, and yes, there are doctors who refuse to give a false diagnosis. But sometimes I get the feeling that the percentage of kids suffering from dyslexia is somewhat higher than 10% -- or is this a local phenomenon or my misconception?
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Between 1 and 30 percent?
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
I read that as "A Genie Causing Dyslexia Found." I just knew there couldn't be magic involved here.
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People are cruel. What jerk came up with the name "lisp" (the speech impediment)? And why name it "dyslexia" instead of using a suitable palindrome?
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The researchers forgot that all their subjects were writing in Cyrillic. The gene they identified was simply the one that gives Russian women their nice thick chest hair.
Irony is identifying a gene that garbles and confuses with a various mix of numbers and letters that are equally confusing and garbled to the rest of the world. There ya go folks, that's what a dyslexic reads! I am sure to the science community it makes perfect sense but if you are trying to address these mind boggled but brilliant people ( I am modest too :) ) the least you could do is name it Gene Bob or something easy. Dyslexics of the world UNTIE!!!
... it's CGTAATTCGATTA and not CAGTAGCTATTTA?
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I have dyslexia you insensitive cold!
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"Dyslexics" are bloody lazy. That's all there is to them. Dyslexia is NOT a disability.
Put it this way, you see ramps in public buildings so wheelchairs can use them. This is because paraplegia is a recognised condition.
Can you go into a library to get books with all the words jumbled about? Of course not. Therefore, Dyslexia isn't a real condition at all.
Bloody lazy crybabies. And if there's any Bixlesics reading, here's a message just for you:
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Didn't the Scientologists solve this already? That's what Tom Cruise says anyway...
It has been known for some time now that dyslexia is not a disorder, but a special ability in certain individuals that enables them to perceive objects in full 3D. That is, when they look at something, their minds instantly build a full 3D image and lets them 'see' it from all directions simultaneously, with no particular direction being any more important than the other. That is why they treat letters and words as 3D, spin them around in their mind, and often write them down backwards or in the wrong order, or confuse certain letter combinations like p and d, or N and Z.
The researcher that first conceived of this idea found a technique that improved the reading and writing ability of 80% of dyslexsics nearly instantly: get them to imagine a camera just above their right shoulder (or left) which is looking at whatever they are looking at. Focus their attention on what the view through the camera lens would be. This slight change raises that particular viewpoint above the others in their minds.
People with dyslexia, once they learn the above technique, have an advantage over the rest of us, and are well suited to any job involving 3D, such as architects, 3D games designers, choreographers etc.
So we (the ones without dyslexia) have a limitation that they lack.
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang"
python >>>
reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
Hehe, I just read the title as "A Game Causing Dyslexia Found"
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From some of my readings (New Scientist, IIRC), humans have an area for reading that is specialized on the left hand side that makes it more amenable for reading. The mirror brain area on the right hand side has kept its function from primates. In primates, both sides have the same function.
So what is the function of this magical area?
Experiments have determined that it seems to be used to recognize various kinds of shapes without regard to its three-dimensional orientation. There are a limited number of shapes it can discern, which might indicate that the shapes involved in human reading and writing are bound by certain limitations.
I don't imagine the trouble is in the area itself, given its function, and the fact that young children frequently have 'dyslexic' effects as they learn to read and write (hence the archetypal backwards S and N of children's crayon masterpieces). Spoons and cats don't vary in function by orientation, but b, d, p and q certainly do... so I imagine there's something in post-processing (likely also on the left side) that can learn and handle orientation-specific symbols.
I saw an interesting videotape showing 'normal' folks what it would be like to live with dyslexia. They took all the d's, p's, b's and q's, mixed them up, shuffled the vertical spacing inside words and changes where the spaces were. You could make out what the text was with a little effort, but it drove home the point that if you have to take the time to "decode" something instead of being able to merely "read" it, it's much harder to remember the content.
One interesting comment a dyslexic coworker mentioned to me was that wearing glasses that slowed down reading actually helped. I don't know the theory behind why it works, but good results bear investigation.
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