D Dzifa, V Boima, E Yorke, A Yawson, V Ganu, C Mate-Kole
Predictors and outcome of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) admission rates in a large teaching hospital in sub-Saharan Africa
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study examined whether two groups young adults poor readers children relatively compensated group group persistent reading difficulties differed nonimpaired readers factors distinguishing compensated persistently poor readers might account different outcomesusing functional magnetic resonance imaging studied three groups young adults ages 185225 years read pseudowords real words 1 persistently poor readers ppr n 24 2 accuracy improved compensated readers air n 19 3 nonimpaired readers ni n 27compensated readers accurate fluent demonstrate relative underactivation posterior neural systems reading located left parietotemporal occipitotemporal regions persistently poor readers fluent less accurate activate posterior reading systems engage differently nonimpaired readers appearing rely memorybased rather analytic word identification strategiesthese findings divergent neural outcomes young adults new unexpected suggest neural basis reading outcomes compensation persistence adults childhood dyslexia