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Research linking Dyslexia to the cerebellum

Brain classification reveals the right cerebellum as the best biomarker of dyslexia (Pernet CR, Poline JB, Demonet JF, Rousselet GA).

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The cerebellar-vestibular basis of learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults: hypothesis and study (Levinson HN  - New York University Medical Center).

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Time estimation deficits in developmental dyslexia: evidence of cerebellar involvement (Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ, Dean P - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Metabolic abnormalities in developmental dyslexia detected by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Rae C, Lee MA, Dixon RM, Blamire AM, Thompson CH, Styles P, Talcott J, Richardson AJ, Stein JF - MRC Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK)

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Association of abnormal cerebellar activation with motor learning difficulties in dyslexic adults (Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ, Berry EL, Jenkins IH, Dean P, Brooks DJ - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Explicit and implicit processing of words and pseudowords by adult developmental dyslexics: A search for Wernicke's Wortschatz? (Brunswick N, McCrory E, Price CJ, Frith CD, Frith U - Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, UK).

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Anatomical risk factors for phonological dyslexia (Leonard CM, Eckert MA, Lombardino LJ, Oakland T, Kranzler J, Mohr CM, King WM, Freeman A - Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Brain Institute, USA).

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The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia (Stein J - University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK).

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 Developmental dyslexia: the cerebellar deficit hypothesis

(Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ, Dean P -Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Lateralized cognitive deficits in children following cerebellar lesions (Scott RB, Stoodley CJ, Anslow P, Paul C, Stein JF, Sugden EM, Mitchell CD - Department of Neurosurgery, Russell Cairns Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK).

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Eyeblink conditioning indicates cerebellar abnormality in dyslexia

(Nicolson RI, Daum I, Schugens MM, Fawcett AJ, Schulz A - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Cerebellar morphology in developmental dyslexia (Rae C, Harasty JA, Dzendrowskyj TE, Talcott JB, Simpson JM, Blamire AM, Dixon RM, Lee MA, Thompson CH, Styles P, Richardson AJ, Stein JF - Department of Biochemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia).

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Reading errors in patients with cerebellar vermis lesions (Moretti R, Bava A, Torre P, Antonello RM, Cazzato G - Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Neurology, UCO of Clinical Neurology, University of Trieste, Italy).

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Implicit learning deficit in children with developmental dyslexia (Vicari S, Marotta L, Menghini D, Molinari M, Petrosini L - Servizio di Neurologia e Riabilitazione, IRCCS, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy).

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The association of abnormal cerebellar function in children with developmental coordination disorder and reading difficulties (O'Hare A, Khalid S - Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, Child Life and Health, Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, UK).

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Evidence for a neuroanatomical difference within the olivo-cerebellar pathway of adults with dyslexia (Finch AJ, Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Anatomical correlates of dyslexia: frontal and cerebellar findings (Eckert MA, Leonard CM, Richards TL, Aylward EH, Thomson J, Berninger VW - Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, USA).

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Cerebellar tests differentiate between groups of poor readers with and without IQ discrepancy (Fawcett AJ, Nicolson RI, Maclagan F - Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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Impaired balancing ability in dyslexic children (Stoodley CJ, Fawcett AJ, Nicolson RI, Stein JF - University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, UK).

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Implicit motor learning deficits in dyslexic adults

(Stoodley CJ, Harrison EP, Stein JF - Department of Physiology, University of Oxford, UK).

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Developmental dyslexia, learning and the cerebellum (Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom).

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Balancing and pointing tasks in dyslexic and control adults (Stoodley CJ, Fawcett AJ, Nicolson RI, Stein JF - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK).

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Cerebellum and reading (Vlachos F, Papathanasiou I, Andreou G - University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece).

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Cerebellar contributions to cognitive functions: a progress report after two decades of research (Timmann D, Daum I -Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany).

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The cerebellum in cognitive processes: supporting studies in children (Steinlin M - Neuropaediatrics, University Children's Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland).

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Poor binocular coordination of saccades in dyslexic children (Bucci MP, Brémond-Gignac D, Kapoula Z - IRIS Group, CNRS, Service OPH-ORL-Stomatologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou & Pôle Chirurgie ORL-OPH, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France).

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Cognitive, linguistic and affective disturbances following a right superior cerebellar artery infarction: a case study

(Mariën P, Baillieux H, De Smet HJ, Engelborghs S, Wilssens I, Paquier P, De Deyn PP - Department of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium).

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Developmental dyslexia and widespread activation across the cerebellar hemispheres (Baillieux H, Vandervliet EJ, Manto M, Parizel PM, De Deyn PP, Mariën P - Department of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium).

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Cerebellar volume and cerebellar metabolic characteristics in adults with dyslexia (Laycock SK, Wilkinson ID, Wallis LI, Darwent G, Wonders SH, Fawcett AJ, Griffiths PD, Nicolson RI - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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The cerebellum's role in reading: a functional MR imaging study (Fulbright RK, Jenner AR, Mencl WE, Pugh KR, Shaywitz BA, Shaywitz SE, Frost SJ, Skudlarski P, Constable RT, Lacadie CM, Marchione KE, Gore JC - Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, USA).

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The contribution of the cerebellum to speech production and speech perception: clinical and functional imaging data (Ackermann H, Mathiak K, Riecker A - Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany).

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Cerebellum and speech perception: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study (Mathiak K, Hertrich I, Grodd W, Ackermann H - MEG-Zentrum, University of Tübingen, Germany).

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Neuro-imaging studies of word reading

(Fiez JA, Petersen SE - Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

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Cerebellar damage produces selective deficits in verbal working memory (Ravizza SM, McCormick CA, Schlerf JE, Justus T, Ivry RB, Fiez JA - Department of Psychology, University of California, USA).

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The role of the basal ganglia and cerebellum in language processing (Booth JR, Wood L, Lu D, Houk JC, Bitan T - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, USA).

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Prisms throw light on developmental disorders (Brookes RL, Nicolson RI, Fawcett AJ - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK).

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