1. Chapter 10 Medical Aspects of Learning Disabilities

2. The Brain

3. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 10-3 Cerebral Hemispheres Left hemisphere –Language Right hemisphere –Nonverbal stimuli Corpus collosum –Connection

4. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 10-4 Recent Brain Research Postmortem studies –Autopsies Imaging Techniques –MRI, fMRI, PET Genetic studies –Family studies, twin studies

5. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 10-5 fMRI Brain Image

6. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 10-6 Early Learning and Brain Development How the brain develops The wiring of the brain Synaptic pruning Critical periods of learning Social influences on brain development

7. The Neurotransmitter System Source: Adapted from The Dana Brain Science Guide: Resources for Secondary and Post-Secondary Teachers and Students, 1999, New York: The Charles A. Dana Foundation, p. 102.