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If you do a brain scan on a person with
dyslexia, the images that are produced
seem strange. In certain critical parts of
the brain—those that deal with reading
and processing words—dyslexics have
less gray matter. They don’t have as
many brain cells in those regions as they
should. As the fetus develops inside the
womb, neurons are supposed to travel to
the appropriate areas of the brain, taking
their places like pieces on a chessboard.
But for some reason, the neurons of
dyslexics sometimes get lost along the
way. They end up in the wrong place.
The brain has something called the