Visually Evoked Potentials in Boys with Developmental Dyslexia

Overview

Journal Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

Specialties Pediatrics
Psychiatry

Date 2018 Jun 7

PMID 29871465

Authors

Klaus Hennighausen

Helmut Remschmidt

Andreas Warnke

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Abstract

Pattern reversal visually evoked potentials were examined in a group of 16 boys with developmental dyslexia and 17 controls matched for sex, age and intelligence. Delineation of hypothesis was done with an independent pilot study. Wave form differences between groups could be observed over the left central lead in the pilot and replication study. Only 44% of the dyslexies showed a negative component between 110 and 215 ms after stimulus onset in comparison to more than 80% of the controls. The lack of this component was most prominent in dyslexies whose spelling scores were more than 1.5 standard deviations below their intelligence score.

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