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Q2.
Tea and beer contributed to protect people from waterborne disease.
Q3.
Roy Porter disagreed with the proposed theory about the missing factors
Q4.
The reason of lower child deaths is fully explained by food.
Q5.
The British made beer by themselves.
Q6.
Tax on malt indirectly affected the increase of population in late 17th century. 

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Welcome to Mr Aslanov’s Lessons 
QUESTION-TYPE BASED TESTS 
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TEST 10 - Dyslexia 
 
People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as being lazy. Some probably were but 
many were simply unable to learn because they were dyslexic. Four key findings now suggest that dyslexia 
is an organic problem and not a motivational one. Firstly, the brain anatomy of dyslexics differs slightly 
from those of non-dyslexics. Secondly their brain functions as measured by electrical activity are dissimilar. 
Thirdly they have behavioral differences apart from an inability to read. Finally, there is more and more 
evidence to suggest that their condition is linked to particular genes. 
The anatomical differences between the brains of dyslexics and non- dyslexics were first noticed in 
1979 by Albert Galaburda of Harvard Medical School. He found two sorts of microscopic flaws in the 
language centres of dyslexic’s brains. These are called ectoplasts and microgyria. 
The language centres form part of the cerebral cortex and are situated on the left side of the brain. The 
cortex consists of six layers of cells. An ectopia is a collection of nerve cells that push up from the lower 
layers of the cortex into the outer ones, where they are not normally found. A microgyrus is a small fold in 
the cortex which results in a reduction in the normal number of layers from six to four. 
The formation of microgyria causes confusion in the neutral connections between the language 
centres and other parts of the brain. Microgyria have been induced in rat embryos and as adults these rats are 
found to have a reduced ability in distinguishing between two sounds played in quick succession. This 
inability to distinguish between two sounds in quick succession is also a symptom of dyslexia in people. 
Dyslexia not only affects language centres but also causes brain abnormalities in visual pathways as 
well. One such abnormality is the reduction in the cell size in the layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus. 
This is where the nerve tracts which transmit information from the eyes to the visual cortex at the back of 
the brain are found. This is significant as dyslexia is essentially an inability to deal with linguistic 
information in visual form. 
This parallel failure of visual and auditory systems is seen elsewhere in the brain. Guinevere Eden 
and Thomas Zeffiro, who work at Georgetown University in Washington D. C. have found an example of it 
using a brain scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging.(MRI) 
A fundamental characteristic of dyslexia is difficulty in processing written phenomes. Phenomes are 
the units of sound which make up a language. By giving dyslexic people tasks such as removing phenomes 
from the beginning of words, while at the same time monitoring brain activity with their scanner, Dr Eden 
and Dr Zeffiro were able to stimulate both the visual and auditory pathways simultaneously. Their findings 
demonstrated that dyslexics showed low activity in a part of the brain called Brodmann’s area 37, another 
part of the brain where visual and auditory information are handled in close proximity. 
Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro have also compared the brain activity of dyslexic and non-dyslexic readers 
who were given a task not related to reading. Another symptom of dyslexia is difficulty in detecting visual 
motion. On this basis Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro devised a task whereby people were asked to look at dots on a 
screen and identify which of them was moving and in which direction. While monitoring brain activity with 
the scanner, it was found that dyslexics performing this task showed significantly less brain activity in 
Brodmann’s area 37 than non dyslexics. As this task did not require reading skills it could be used to test 
children for incipient dyslexia before they reach the reading age; then they could be given special tuition. 
To broaden their investigation, Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro teamed up with Frank Wood and his 
colleagues at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, an institution specializing 
in dyslexia. Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro borrowed some of its patients and monitored them in the fMRI machine 
at Georgetown University. This was done both before and after the individuals had participated in an 
intensive programme designed to improve their reading. Non- dyslexics were also scanned and used as 
controls in the investigation.
The results were significant. After the programme, the participants showed enhanced brain activity 
while reading. However this activity was not on the left side of the brain but in areas on the right side, 

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