The Basics
This brain process involves the storage of information in the brain.
What is memory?
This type of skill is most impaired by dyslexia.
What is reading?
This syndrome results from mutation of the X chromosome.
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
This network involves the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobe.
What is the Default Mode Network?
In the case of Clive Wearing, the damage to this brain structure caused impairments to forming declarative memory while keeping his motor memory intact.
What is the hippocampus?
This type of emotional struggle often accompanies dyslexia
What is stress (or anxiety or depression)?
People with Williams Syndrome is impaired in _________.
What is implicit learning?
This treatment is most widely abused for ADHD.
This theory explains what neural changes underline learning and memory.
What is the theory of Long-Term Potentiation?
This font has been proposed to help people with dyslexia read, but hasn’t garnered any empirical support.
What is OpenDyslexic?
This area of the brain is associated with implicit learning.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
This area develops the slowest in people with ADHD.
What is middle prefrontal cortex?
This neurotransmitter is implicated in memory formation.
What is glutamate?
The acquisition of this type of memory would be most impacted by dyslexia.
What is declarative (explicit) memory?
This protein is associated with synaptic plasticity.
What is FMRP?
These areas of the brain are most associated with ADHD (3).
What are the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes?