News & Insights
Newly Released: The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain
The first edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain was recently released and is now available to readers. This state-of-the-art handbook was co-edited by Dr. Swathi Kiran, Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery, and Dr. Edna Andrews from Duke University. This text serves as a... More
HealthDay: Healthy Habits Slash Genetic Dementia Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
HealthDay quoted Dr. Hugo Aparicio, a CBR Core Faculty member, on the importance of heart health in relation to brain health. Read the full article
CBR Interns Selected for UROP Funding
Interview with CBR Interns Amelia Andre and Helen Blans This semester, two CBR interns were selected to receive UROP funding for their research project applications. Congratulations to Amelia Andre and Helen Blans, both undergraduate students in the neuroscience program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Amelia and Helen both joined the... More
Advances in AI: Diagnosis & Treatment of Neurological and Neurodegenerative Disorders Symposium
October 24th, 2025 On Friday, October 24th, leading researchers from the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to present their ground-breaking work leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for detection, treatment, and prediction of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Hosted in collaboration with the... More
Faculty Feature: Stacy Andersen
Dr. Andersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the co-director of the New England Centenarian Study. Q&A with Stacy Andersen What is your current research focus, and how does it align with... More
Identifying Priorities in Aphasia Care: CBR to collaborate with NAA on PCORI Awarded Research
Funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) will be partnering with the National Aphasia Association (NAA) and Nova Southeastern University (NSU) on an initiative to identify the most significant impacts faced by people with aphasia and establish research priorities for... More
Medical Xpress: How hair and skin characteristics affect brain imaging: Making fNIRS research more inclusive
Medical Xpress featured CBR Core Faculty member Meryem Yücel's research examining the impact of hair and skin characteristics on the quality of brain signals recorded using fNIRS. This research discovered inequities in data collection, and provides recommendations for best practices to optimize data collection across diverse populations. This study also... More
CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au
CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au, September 29, 2025 Title: Precision Brain Health: Getting from Here to There Abstract: Clinical research in Alzheimer's disease has been slow to embrace the technological advances that could address many long standing representative gaps. This hesitancy has led to more incremental science. Our precision brain health initiative... More
What Causes Aphasia?
What Is Aphasia? Aphasia is a language disorder that is caused by a stroke or brain trauma. This disorder affects how people communicate and understand language, as it may affect their ability to speak, understand, read, or write. According to the National Aphasia Association, there are more than 2 million people in... More
Forecasting Recovery: CBR Faculty Awarded $3.2M NIH Grant
Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) faculty members Drs. Archana Venkataraman and Swathi Kiran have been awarded a $3.2M NIH grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to develop computational tools that will predict language recovery in people with post-stroke aphasia. Venkataraman, an expert in machine learning, and... More
Faculty Feature: Andreas Charidimou
Dr. Charidimou is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery. He also holds roles as an Attending Physician, Director, Disease Modifying Therapy in Alzheimer’s Disease (DMTAD) Program Director, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy/Small Vessel... More
CBR Annual Report 2025
The Center for Brain Recovery's 2025 Annual Report report features letters from our leadership team, highlights about our recent research, programming, and events, as well as a list of faculty publications (July 2024 – June 2025) matching the Center's mission. Read the full report
CBR Seminar Series: Simona Mancini
CBR Seminar Series: Simona Mancini, September 15, 2025 Title: Dynamic interplay between language and domain-general functions Abstract: The relationship between domain-general cognitive processes and language functions has emerged as a critical area of investigation in understanding both typical language processing and recovery from aphasia. Studies on healthy young adults reveal minimal domain-general... More
3rd Annual Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference, 2025
July 28th – 29th, 2025 This year marked the 3rd edition of the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference, drawing in 191 in-person and 27 virtual attendees from across the United States and all over the world with registrants hailing from 12 different countries; including South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, More
How ICCR Helps Students with TBI Return to College
By Lauren Hodges, August 27th, 2025 For college students and young adults living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the road back to campus can feel overwhelming. Memory lapses, trouble organizing thoughts, or difficulty keeping up with class discussions aren’t just frustrating, they can make the return to higher education seem... More