Treatment and pre-treatment of dysmetric dyslexia by improving sequential scanning and ocular fixation abilities and therapeutic compounds

US4007273A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Harold N. Levinson · Great Neck, US
• Jan Frank · Remchingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 8, 1975
• Grant date: Feb 8, 1977
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61K31/495
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The within method contemplates the administration of a drug, effective as a cerebellar-vestibular harmonizing agent, as a prelude to reading for a patient who is or will become dysmetric dyslexic, the administered drug functioning in a sense like "eyeglasses" to improve the dynamic vision of the patient. In a partially analogous situation, in a person who suffers from motion sickness, commonly known as seasickness, the rocking of the boat or like motion produces an increased or excessive input to his cerebellar-vestibular circuits, with the result that such excessive stimulation causes nauseousness and related adverse effects. In a dysmetric dyslexic-identified patient, while he never experiences symptoms of motion sickness, i.e. nauseousness, during reading, he nevertheless has an overloading and dysharmony (i.e. excessive input) to his cerebellar-vestibular circuits as a result, obviously not of boat rocking or the like, but as a result of a dysfunctioning cerebellar-vestibular, a dysfunctioning discovered to exist in dysmetric dyslexic patients. The administered drug, of the nature indicated, thus by its suppressing and harmonizing influence maintains the input to and within the…