While this is the first study to show that learning difficulties arise from poor connections between brain hubs, their importance in understanding brain disorders is becoming increasingly clear.
Children with poor connectivity between the “hubs” in their brains are more likely to have learning difficulties, according to a new University of Cambridge study. In contrast, the study found that children with brain networks strongly organized around highly connected hubs had only selective cognitive impairments or no cognitive impairments at all.
, senior author on the study, says this is probably because “hubs play a key role in sharing information between brain areas.”These findings suggest that interventions should rely less on diagnostic labels. Though a learning disability diagnosis can open the door for specialist support, Dr.
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