The Harvard Gazette profiles the work of the lab of Nadine Gaab, specifically their ongoing BabyBOLD study. Gaab’s team enrolls infants between 3 and 8 months with familial risk for reading disabilities. They found that some atypical brain characteristics involving white matter (where information and communication is exchanged), connectivity patterns, and other measurements found in older children are already present as early as infancy.

Read more in the Harvard Gazette.