By PhD student Dheepak Arumukhom Revi and Assistant Professor Louis N. Awad The emerging fields of telehealth and digital therapeutics are primed to change the face of healthcare. They are also well-suited to leverage wearable sensors that can monitor movement in the everyday world. Indeed, we have recently seen a rapid expansion of everyday technologies […]
Sargent College Dean and Professor Christopher Moore and Assistant Professor Jennifer Zuk were honored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their contributions to the professions of speech-language pathology and speech & hearing science. Moore received the Honors of the Association, the highest award ASHA bestows, for his distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication […]
Boston University researchers urge caution when evaluating voice disorders over teleconferencing platforms due to differences in acoustic measurements. by Gina Matinca from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. Over the past year, people across the world learned how teleconferencing platforms like Zoom can help folks stay connected – playing […]
Researchers at Boston University and Boston Medical Center discover that patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders not only have changes to laryngeal motor patterns, but also disrupted ability to integrate auditory information. by Gina Matinca from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. A singer’s instrument is their voice, but their […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is an urgent need for more effective approaches to connect people from varying cultures and communities to public health solutions in ways that are accessible, helpful, and meaningful. In this Issues in Brief from the Pardee School of Global Studies, Marial Williams, a Sargent student in the doctor […]
(12/9/2020, Psychology Today) A new study by Research Associate Professor Virginia Best suggests that in “cocktail party” listening situations, people’s eye position steers their visual attention—which, in turn, guides their auditory attention. “Our primary motivation was an intuition that eye position may be especially critical within these [cocktail party] situations, where there is substantial energetic and […]
Associate Professor Simone Gill was named to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Roster of Fellows for her contributions to innovative interdisciplinary science which advances motor performance skills. This honor recognizes AOTA colleagues who have made significant contributions to the profession of occupational therapy through knowledge, expertise, leadership, advocacy, and/or guidance. Gill directs the Motor […]
Michael Scimeca, a PhD candidate in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, received a Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation), the philanthropic arm of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Scimeca is a graduate student in the Aphasia Research Lab where he is working on Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling in bilingual aphasia […]
In a new article published in the Journal of Neuroscience and featured on the October cover, Serial Prefrontal Pathways Are Positioned to Balance Cognition and Emotion in Primates, BU Neural Systems Lab researchers Mary Kate P. Joyce, Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas, Yohan J. John, and Helen Barbas studied how the brain balances emotion and reason. Specifically, […]
In this episode of the health and wellness podcast Spot On!, host and Clinical Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake discusses male athletes and eating disorders, which often go undetected and treated. Salge Blake interviews Sargent Associate Professor of Nutrition Paula Quatromoni, a registered dietitian and expert in eating disorders and sports nutrition along with […]
Malwina Carrion, MPH, a lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, is a co-PI on a new five-year cooperative agreement, with a maximum award of $1 million, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study Chagas disease. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Carrion and co-PI Dr. Natasha Hochberg, an associate professor at Boston […]
The BU Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) selected Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Lawrence Were as a 2020 KL2 Scholar. The KL2 Program supports outstanding researchers for their efforts in developing novel solutions focused on clinical and translational research. CTSI’s KL2 program is a mentored career development program for BU’s most promising junior faculty […]
(9/10/20, U.S. News & World Report) Expert Quote: “It’s a common misperception that dyslexia is a visual issue.” -Tyler Perrachione, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences Read the article
Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Schmidt was awarded a Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for her project “Understanding Sexuality and Community Participation in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.” Switzer Research Fellowships support highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to conduct high quality research on the rehabilitation of individuals […]
“If you want to improve health, you have to reduce inequity,” said Donald Berwick, a pediatrician and an expert on healthcare quality and improvement, who delivered Sargent’s 2019 Meredith E. Drench Lecture, “Start Here: Getting Real about Social Determinants of Health.” Using New York City’s subway map, Berwick highlighted how inequality affects health. On a […]