Identifying Priorities in Aphasia Care: CBR to collaborate with NAA on PCORI Awarded Research

in Announcements, Grants

  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 the future. This research, […]

Forecasting Recovery: CBR Faculty Awarded $3.2M NIH Grant

in Announcements, Grants

  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 Kiran, a clinician-scientist […]

CBR Annual Report 2025

in Announcements

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    

Read our recent paper: Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalisation

in Accomplishments, Announcements, In the News

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.