Transcranial electrical stimulation improves phoneme processing in developmental dyslexia

About 10 % of the western population suffers from a specific disability in the acquisition of reading and writing skills, known as developmental dyslexia (DD). Even though DD starts in childhood it frequently continuous throughout lifetime. Impaired processing of acoustic features at the phonematic scale based on dysfunctional auditory temporal resolution is considered as one core deficit underlying DD. Recently, the efficacy of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) to modulate auditory temporal resolution and phoneme processing in healthy individuals has been demonstrated.

Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - February 13, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Katharina Rufener, Kerstin Krauel, Martin Meyer, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Tino Zaehle Source Type: research