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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
The Dyslexia Foundation and the Extraordinary Brain Series
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: The Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis and Dyslexia
Chapter 1. The Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis
Chapter 2. Clinical and Sociological Aspects of Dyslexia in the Context of the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis 30 Years Later
Section II: Brain Development, Hormones, and Immunology
Chapter 3. Mechanisms that Control Left/Right Asymmetry and Sexual Dimorphisms in the Forebrain
Chapter 4. Sex Differences in the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis of Cerebral Lateralization: The Whole Body Perspective Revisited
Chapter 5. Can Prenatal Maternal Distress Predict Child Cerebral Laterality? Recent Findings and Implications for the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis
Chapter 6. Pubertal Effects of Androgens on Brain Development and Lateralization
Integrative Summary 1: Brain Development, Hormones, and Immunology and the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis
Section III: Sex Differences
Chapter 7. Brain Asymmetries and Sex Differences in Developmental Dyslexia
Chapter 8. The Sexual Dimorphism of the Human Brain: Discriminating Between Effects of Brain Size and Effects of Sex Independent of Brain Size
Chapter 9. Sex Differences in Cognition and Learning
Chapter 10. Animal Models of Early Neural Disruption: Sex Differences, Neuroplasticity, and Implications for Dyslexia
Integrative Summary 2: Sex Differences and the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis
Section IV: Laterality
Chapter 11. From One to Many: Why the Mechanics of Complex Human Traits Are Difficult to Decipher
Chapter 12. The Ontogenesis of Handedness and Language Lateralization: Links to Developmental Disorders
Integrative Summary 3: From Genes to Brains
Section V: Reading and Dyslexia: From Genes to Behavior
Chapter 13. Genetics of Specific Reading Disability: The State of Affairs
Chapter 14. Intergenerational Transmission of Reading and Reading Brain Networks
Chapter 15. Early Atypical Brain Development in Developmental Dyslexia
Chapter 16. Reading in Children with Developmental Disorders
Integrative Summary 4: Reading Skill and the Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis
Epilogue
Index
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