A child who suffers from dyslexia usually has a great intellectual capacity, although he does not marry the problems he usually presents in order to learn to read or write. Occasionally, parents and educators believe that a child does not want or does not like to study and is doomed to child failure when in reality the problem is dyslexia.
Now a new study by American researchers shows that the difficulty of reading that dyslexics suffer could be related to a genetic disorder called periventricular nodular heterotopia. It is a mutation that affects the gray matter of the brain in which the brain structure that composes it is altered. Apparently, thanks to an MRI team designed for the study, it has been found that in healthy individuals, gray matter is on the brain surface and white matter appears in the nucleus. On the other hand, in a dyslexic person the order of these matters appears in the opposite direction, the gray inside and the white on the surface.
Further studies are necessary to understand the inversion of the materials and the lack of connections between them in the case of dyslexia resulting from said genetic alteration, but it is a first step that will allow to detect, and perhaps in the near future, prevent this type of dyslexia.
Remember that it is essential that parents try to recognize dyslexia so as not to act negatively with a child who has a hard time learning to read and write because of the disease.
