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...implications are enormous," neurologist Albert Galaburda said. If dyslexia can be diagnosed in small children then proper treatment for overcoming the disorder could begin at an early age, the assistant professor of neurology said...
...Galaburda, who heads the Dyslexia Research Laboratory at Harvard-affiliated Beth-Israel Hospital, and another doctor, Thomas Kemper, were the first to provide evidence for the neurological origin of the disorder. In 1979 they first discovered abnormalities in the brains of dyslexics...
Such abnormalities may be caused by damaging antibodies which enter the brain of a fetus, Galaburda said yesterday afternoon...
...Similar antibodies can damage other natal tissues," the neurologist said, adding that children of mothers with lupus have an increased chance of developing congenital heart block. The conclusion that antibodies can also damage brain tissue is "a very small step," Galaburda said...
...Harvard Medical School professor. Albert M. Galaburda researching brain abnormalities makes nationwide headlines when he requests the brain of suspected murderer-rapist, who had died two weeks earlier of a self inflicted gunshot wound...