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Reading Leads to Measurable Brain Gains, Research Says
Cheree Cleghorn | December 11, 2009

National Public Radio

“Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child’s brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another. (Emphasis added)

“That helped areas of the brain work together,” says Marcel Just, director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

“Coordination is important because reading involves a lot of different parts of the brain, Just says.”

Source: National Public Radio, December 11, 2009

Citation: Neuron, Volume 64, Issue 5, 624-631, 10 December 2009

Topics: Patient's Own Decision-Maker

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