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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 […]
Interview with Scientific Director Maria Varkanitsa and Intern Isabel Yu The Undergraduate Internship Experience Isabel Yu, is an undergraduate neuroscience student at Boston University and has been a member of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) internship program since the fall. Through working with Manuel Marte on his “Naturalistic Neuroimaging for Presurgical Language Mapping” research […]
CBR Founding Director Dr. Swathi Kiran receives the Honors of the Association Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The Honors of the Association recognizes members for their distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders, whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the professions […]
