The best readers within a group had the best myelination scores and the worst had the worst scores.

ECONOMIST: Dyslexia

The biggest differences in myelination occurred in the temporo-parietal region in the brain's left hemisphere the area that seems to control most language processing.

ECONOMIST: Dyslexia

The more that the water molecules move in a coherent fashion along nerve fibres, therefore, the better the myelination and the more efficiently those fibres can transmit signals.

ECONOMIST: Dyslexia

Not only did the people in the control group have better myelination in this part of the brain than the dyslexics, but differences were also seen within each group.

ECONOMIST: Dyslexia