Children with reading difficulties benefit from targeted training programmes. As a result, their brain activity increases in the area of the brain known as the visual word form area. This was shown by a study with primary school pupils conducted by JARA-BRAIN scientist Prof. Dr. Stefan Heim and his team. The findings were recently published in the journal Brain Structure & Function.
Autists may be able to recite bus timetables and movie showtimes. However, they find it difficult to recognize feelings such as happiness or sadness in other people. JARA-BRAIN junior professor Prof. Dr. Thomas Nickl-Jockschat and a team of researchers recently discovered that an anomaly in the visual centre is partly responsible for this deficit.
JARA-BRAIN scientists have discovered that respiration and brain function correspond more closely with each other than previously believed. The results of their research have been published in the internationally respected journal Nature Communications.
JARA-BRAIN scientist Prof. Dr. Hermann Wagner has become a member of the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz. The professor of biology at RWTH Aachen University has been named a full member of the mathematical-scientific branch of the academy.
