The CBR Internship Program
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 […]
Dr. Swathi Kiran receives the Honors of the Association Award
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 […]
9 CBR Students Present Their Research Around the World
Featuring interviews with Student Presentations at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL) in Brisbane, Australia, and the Academy of Aphasia 62nd Annual Meeting in Nara, Japan. About the conferences The Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), founded in November of 2010, is an NIH-funded non-profit organization whose overarching goal is to […]
Visiting the Center for Brain Recovery: Interview with BU CBR Alumni Visiting Scholars Karen Arellano and Brandi BeCoats.
The Center for Brain Recovery hosts a passionate team of undergraduate and master’s students, PhD candidates, faculty and staff. CBR also welcomes visiting students and interns from other institutions to collaborate on research projects and receive valuable training. In this edition, we interviewed two of our visiting scholars Karen Arellano and Brandi BeCoats to share […]
2nd Annual Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference at Boston University, 2024
This August, the BU Center for Brain Recovery teamed up with the Neurophotonics Center and Rafiki B Hariri Center for Computing to host the second annual Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference at Boston University with Co-Host Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute. The event brought together over 450 attendees from 25 countries around the world, […]
Using Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction to Identify Lesion Patterns Predictive of Post-Stroke Aphasia Severity
Interview with CBR Undergraduate Student Emerson Kropp about his recent research: Using Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction to Identify Lesion Patterns Predictive of Post-Stroke Aphasia Severity Introduction Emerson Kropp is an undergraduate student at Boston University studying under Dr. Kiran in the Center for Brain Recovery as he completes his premedical bachelors degree in Health Science/ Human […]
Naturalistic Assessment of Language and Emotion Brain Recovery Through Real World Language Studies
Introduction In this interview with Center for Brain Recovery PhD Student Manuel Marte, we explore his interdisciplinary project which dives into a Naturalistic Assessment of Language and Emotion. This research aims to build off of the use of movie fMRI (mv-fMRI) for presurgical language mapping and has benefited greatly from the researchers on the team […]
Mapping Recovery: Understanding Aphasia Recovery Through Neuroimaging
An Interview With 5 BU Researchers About Their Projects In the dynamic field of cognitive neuropsychology, the integration of advanced imaging techniques with clinical outcomes offers a promising approach to understanding and treating aphasia. The Center for Brain Recovery recently completed a study that examines the functional reorganization of the language and domain-general multiple demand […]
What Can Digital Diagnosis and Digital Therapeutics Tell Us About the Brain?
BU’s Hariri Institute Teams Up With CBR To Bring Together Leaders in Digital Diagnosis and Digital Therapeutics This past April, an industry panel discussion took place at Boston University that shed light on the applications of digital diagnostics and therapeutics in brain health. Co-hosted by the Boston University Hariri Institute for Computing and the Center […]
Unveiling Hope, CBR’s Open House 2024
BU Center for Brain Recovery Hosts Its First Open House, Unveiling Hope in The Center’s New Office Space Earlier this month, the Center for Brain Recovery held its first open house in their new space to celebrate the work being done by its members and connect with affiliates. The invite-only event gathered alumni, core faculty […]