BY JOSH LOWE ON 10/18/17 AT 8:13 AM Dyslexia, the reading disability, may be caused by the makeup of the eyes.PUBLIC DOMAINS SHARE TECH & SCIENCEDYSLEXIA Two scientists believe they have found a possible cause of dyslexia, the disability that affects reading skills—and it could be treatable. Their research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looks into the arrangement of cells in the eyes and the effect this has on the brain, according to a press release on Medical Xpress. Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars wrote that, in dyslexic people, the light receptor cells in the eyes were arranged the same on both sides. Meanwhile, in those who do not have the condition, each eye has a different arrangement of cells. Keep Up With This Story And More By Subscribing Now When the patterns of cells are symmetrical, it can produce “mirror” images of the world and confuse the brain, the press statement explained. When the opposite is true, one image can override the other; there is a dominant eye, which the brain picks when there are two similar images of the world. The human eye contains both rod and cone cells, with the cones (present in red, green and blue forms) responsible for color vision. However, each eye has a small spot where no blue cones are present. According to the new study, in non-dyslexic people, these two spots are shaped differently; one is round, and the other is a less even shape. Meanwhile, the scientists said, dyslexics have a round-shaped spot in both eyes, so neither is dominant. "Our observations lead us to believe that we indeed found a potential cause of dyslexia," Ropars, of the University of Rennes, told Agence France-Presse. The researchers posit that treating this condition is possible because, they say, there is a miniscule delay lasting about 10-thousandths of a second before the mirror images are received by the brain. During their experiments, the two researchers used an LED lamp flashing at such speed it couldn’t be perceived by the naked eye. This canceled out one of the mirror images in the brains of dyslexic people. The potential treatment has not yet been sufficiently tested to be deemed reliably effective. http://www.newsweek.com/dyslexia-newsweek-cure-health-687509
This is pretty great news. Hopefully the treatment will be developed further and become widely available.
awesome... how timely that is. I can't believe it... I just had to cheer my daughter up about this a few weeks ago. my youngest has to work so hard sounding out the words. its like she can not memorize the look of the word. And she does flip letters. (one of her brothers had the same issue but seems to have gotten over it with a ton of reading and work.) This is really going to resonate with her... as many times I have told that I know something is happening between her eyes and her brain but its not her brain because I know she is really sharp. This is so great. thank you.
Have a talk with your Daughter and let her know its not her ,and that there's hope out there. Tell her good work is being done and those who suffer aren't being forgotten. Let her know she's not alone and that many people have the same problem as her and people do care.
I used to work for a guy with dyslexia. He was an intelligent man with a successful business, but that treatment would've made his life so much easier.