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Spotlight Research: Predicting Therapy Outcomes With Machine Learning
BU Researchers Use Machine Learning to Create Personalized Recovery Plans for Individuals with Neurological Disorders Boston University Researchers are working to advance personalized healthcare by developing a personalized prediction algorithm for speech, language, and cognitive recovery in patients with neurological disorders. In a project funded by the Hariri Insitute, Boston University Researchers Swathi Kiran, Alan […]
Spotlight Research: Multiple Demand Study
BU Researchers Study: Functional Reorganization of the Language and Domain-general Multiple Demand Systems in Aphasia Introduction Our recent project on neuroplasticity and neurorecovery of aphasia examines how the brain adapts to recover language abilities in individuals with aphasia. It observes English speakers, whether they have a history of stroke or not, by studying the relationship […]
Spotlight: BU ICCR Program Creates Pathway For Students to Return to College After Brain Injuries
BU ICCR Program Creates Pathway For Students to Return to College After Brain Injuries Boston University’s Intensive Cognitive Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) program is helping young adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) return to college or higher education by improving their communication skills in academic environments. Due to the nature of ABI and the environment necessary […]
Spotlight Research: Neuroimaging in the Everyday World
BU Researchers Blend Disciplines to Create Technology for Neuroimaging in the Everyday World. The human brain is a complex system that is incredibly important to study in order to further our understanding of neurological functions, behaviors, and disorders. However, current technology limits our ability to capture data and images of the brain in the everyday […]
Featured Article: CSD Program Makes College Possible After Brain Injury
The Aphasia Research Laboratory’s very own Intensive Cognitive and Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) program was featured in the June 2019 edition of the ASHA Leader, the monthly newsmagazine for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. To Read the ASHA Leader’s ICCR article, click here.
Featured Article: A New Semester
To read the Inside Sargent ICCR article, click here.
Read our recent paper, “Benchmarks of significant change after aphasia rehabilitation”
This study established benchmarks of significant change on three standardized outcome measures (i.e., WAB, CETI, BNT) used in aphasia rehabilitation. Click here for a link to the Accepted manuscript forthcoming in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Read our recent paper: Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalisation
Click here for a free copy of our latest paper published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation showing that participants with chronic aphasia improve significantly on trained and untrained items and demonstrate transfer to semantic/phonological processing and global language skills after typicality-based semantic feature analysis treatment.
Erin Meier receives F31 NIH fellowship grant
Doctoral Student Erin Meier just received in NIH sponsored F31 grant to work on connectivity mechanisms to explain language recovery in patients with aphasia. Check out her profile here: Erin Meier