Since its discovery in the 1890s, dyslexia has been described as a disorder of reading and writing. Its founder, W. Pringle Morgan, called it a “congenital defect.” But what if the disorder label ...

Kelly Pierce has a beautiful mind shaped by dyslexia, yet she endured decades of challenges and experienced the hurtful stigma of dyslexia into adulthood. I first diagnosed Kelly’s severe spelling ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study, a team of ...

Jennifer Mishra does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Many of the etchings by artist M. C. Escher appeal because they depict scenes that defy logic. His famous “Waterfall” shows a waterwheel powered by a cascade pouring down from a brick flume. Water ...

The paragraph in the top panel depicts whole-word errors, ie, neglect of whole words on the left side. In the bottom panel are examples of within-word errors or unilateral paralexias, ie, where a ...