Mirror image is cause of dyslexia

French scientists have identified an eye problem that may be one cause of dyslexia where millions of sufferers face severe reading and writing problems.

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Published Wednesday 25 October 2017 - 15:00 Modified Wednesday 25 October 2017 - 15:00

Guy Ropars and Albert Le Floch of the Université de Rennes 1 in Brittany found dyslexic people had light receptor cells that allowed them to see two ‘mirror versions’ of a letter at one time.

They found a spot in the eye, Maxwell’s spot, was non-symmetrical in one eye and round in the dominant eye. The brain reads signals from the round spot but dyslexics had a round spot in each eye, giving the brain two confusing images.