- Children could one day take a pill to improve their reading
skills.
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- Researchers trying to find the elusive gene that affects
reading ability have identified several genes and chromosomes that may
be responsible.
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- Dr Cathy Barr from the Western Hospital in Toronto, Canada,
said 40 to 60 per cent of the risk of having a reading disability was genetic.
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- One of the most likely culprits was the memory suppressor
gene PP1, which regulates how information is stored in the brain.
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- Dr Barr said people with a reading disability had difficulty
keeping verbal information in their short-term memory, but once it entered
their long term memory it stayed.
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- Speaking at the International Congress on Genetics in
Melbourne yesterday, Dr Barr said once a gene or genes were positively
located it could be possible to develop a drug to treat reading disorders,
given the success of the attention deficit disorder drug Ritalin.
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- http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6723170%255E662,00.html
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- Comment
- From Frances - Canada
- 7-9-3
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- Well here in Canada they've declared "sweating"
a disease and they're trying to market pills or some kind of therapy to
stop sweating. Pretty soon they'll declare breathing a "disease"
too.
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