Reply to "Dyslexia: Still Not a Neurodevelopmental Disorder"

Gorka Fraga González; Iliana I Karipidis; Jurgen Tijms

doi:10.3390/brainsci9030061

Reply to "Dyslexia: Still Not a Neurodevelopmental Disorder"

Brain Sci. 2019 Mar 14;9(3):61. doi: 10.3390/brainsci9030061.

Authors

Gorka Fraga González^{1

2

3}, Iliana I Karipidis^{4

5}, Jurgen Tijms^{6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 15916 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands. gorka.fragagonzalez@uzh.ch.
² Rudolf Berlin Center, 44401 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. gorka.fragagonzalez@uzh.ch.
³ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland. gorka.fragagonzalez@uzh.ch.
⁴ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland. iliana.karipidis@kjpd.uzh.ch.
⁵ Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. iliana.karipidis@kjpd.uzh.ch.
⁶ Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 15916 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands. jurgentijms@gmail.com.
⁷ Rudolf Berlin Center, 44401 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. jurgentijms@gmail.com.
⁸ RID, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands. jurgentijms@gmail.com.

Abstract

In a recent opinion article, we explained why we think that defining developmental dyslexia as a neurodevelopmental disorder and neuroimaging studies on dyslexia are useful. A recent response has made some claims of generalized misinterpretation and misconception in the field. Since that was a direct reply to our article, we would like to clarify our opinion on some of those claims.

Keywords: dyslexia; neurodevelopmental disorder; neuroimaging; reading difficulty.