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Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) It is commonly understood that Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) assist children during the developmental stages of speech, but SLPs work with patients of all ages, including adults who have experienced a brain injury resulting in aphasia. Speech-Language Pathology can play a critical role in the brain recovery process, but it is often overlooked […]
Dr. Cronin-Golomb is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the Director of the Vision & Cognition Laboratory. Q&A with Alice Cronin-Golomb, PhD What […]
This past May, four researchers from the BU Center for Brain Recovery attended and presented at the 2025 Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the conference, CBR Assistant Scientific Director, Maria Varkanitsa, presented the research “Theory of mind deficits in people with post-stroke aphasia: Prevalence and links to aphasia severity and brain […]
Acknowledgements This work was conducted as part of a larger NIH-funded project titled “Functional reorganization of the language and domain-general multiple demand systems in aphasia” (NIDCD Grant 1R01DC016950, PIs: Swathi Kiran and Evelina Fedorenko). It reflects a collaborative effort from current and former researchers at the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery, including Maria […]
Dr. Venkataraman is an Associate Professor at Boston University, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the Principal Investigator for the BU Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory. Q&A with Archana Venkataraman What is your current research focus, and how does it align with the […]
In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month, we would like to highlight the story of Daniel Marcelo, a stroke survivor who started language therapy with the BU Center for Brain Recovery in 2022 as part of a randomized, controlled clinical trial entitled “Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling (PROCoM)”. If you would like to […]
Dr. Hoover is a Clinical Professor at Boston University, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the Clinical Director of the BU Aphasia Resource Center. Q&A with Elizabeth Hoover What is your current research focus, and how does it align with the Center […]
Our History The Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) was first established at Boston University in 2009 as the “Aphasia Research Laboratory” with the primary goal of understanding language processing and communication following brain damage. Following the initiation of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, the lab received its first PhD student in 2010. Since then, 16 […]
