<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T00:57:07+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43318/1/" /><id>43318</id><summary><![CDATA[Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts]]></summary><issued>2007-12-05T08:36:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-05T08:36:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency &#8212; slow and choppy reading &#8212; may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers. Their study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers&#8217; brains that makes it difficult to integrate the information needed for rapid, &#8220;automatic&#8221; reading.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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