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A Solution to the Riddle Dyslexia

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  1. Harold N. Levinson

    1. New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Riddle Dyslexia and a Solution: An Introductory Sketch

    • Harold N. Levinson
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Spectrum and Panorama of Dyslexia: The Retrospective Study

    • Harold N. Levinson
    Pages 25-71

  4. Neurophysiologic and Etiologic Correlations in Dyslexia: The Prospective Study

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    Pages 73-106

  5. A Cerebellar-Vestibular Hypothesis of the Dyslexic Reading Disorder

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    Pages 107-121

  6. Validation of the Dyslexic Reading Hypothesis: The Staten Island Study

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    Pages 123-144

  7. Blurring-Speed Distribution in a Kindergarten Population: The Queens Study

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    Pages 145-162

  8. Compensatory Tracking and Reading Scores in Dyslexia

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    Pages 163-184

  9. The Clinical Blurring-Speed Study

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    Pages 185-202

  10. Ocular-Motor Tracking Patterns in Dyslexic and Normal Individuals

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    Pages 203-222

  11. Clinically and Theoretically Derived Cerebellar Functions

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    Pages 223-233

  12. Anti-Motion Sickness Medications in Dyslexia

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    Pages 235-257

  13. The Cerebellar-Vestibular Role in Phobias and Related Mental Events

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    Pages 259-286

  14. Criticism and Its Analysis

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    Pages 287-304

  15. A Cosmic Field Theory of Mind

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    Pages 305-320

  16. A Summary in Cosmic Perspective

    • Harold N. Levinson
    Pages 321-321

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 323-406
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About this book

Dyslexia was first described by two English physicians, Kerr and Morgan, in 1896. Interestingly, the structural cortical hypothesis initially proposed by Morgan is still held in wide esteem, albeit in slightly modified forms. Despite 80 years of escalating research efforts and mounds of correspond­ ing statistics, there continues to exist a perplexing diagnostic-therapeutic medical void and riddle in which dyslexics can neither be scientifically distinguished from other slow learners nor medically treated; and patho­ gnomonic clinical signs remain as elusive as a suitable neurophysiologic conceptualization. This book is the outcome of a IS-year-Iong search for a solution to the riddle characterizing dyslexia. All of my initial attempts at re-exploring the safe old (cortical, psychogenic, etc.) dyslexic paths and ideas led nowhere. Something new was needed. Children and adults were suffering. Educators and parents were bewildered. Answers were needed. The government man­ dated equal education for the learning disabled. Clinicians were waiting. And traditionalists remained fixated to the theoretical past and blind to the clinical dyslexic reality.

Authors and Affiliations

  • New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

    Harold N. Levinson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Solution to the Riddle Dyslexia

  • Authors: Harold N. Levinson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9774-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-9776-2Published: 13 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9774-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 408

  • Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry, Neurology

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