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Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Chief of Pediatric Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Shaywitz’ honors include, among others, election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and selection, along with Dr. Sally Shaywitz, as the recipient of the 2001 Leonard Apt Lectureship of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Sidney Berman Award for the Study and Treatment of Learning Disabilities presented by and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 2002, Dr. Shaywitz was chosen as “One of the Best Doctors in America” and “One of America’s Top Doctors.” Together with his wife, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, Dr. Bennett Shaywitz established and is currently Co-Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention. Dr. Shaywitz has a long-standing interest in disorders of learning and attention in children and young adults. Recently he has used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to discover differences in brain organization and function in children and adults with dyslexia and he is now using fMRI to study how the brain changes as children with dyslexia are taught to read.
Web site: http://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/
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