Progressing Parkinson’s Research: CBR’s Terry Ellis Receives $2M Grant to Study Wearable Device for Parkinson’s Gait
Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) faculty member Dr. Terry Ellis will be the Lead Investigator on a clinical research study awarded $2 million in grant funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. This study will assess the impact of MedRhythms’ MOVIVE (MR-005) on gait, mobility, and cognitive responses for people with Parkinson’s disease. […]
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 the future. This research, […]
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 Kiran, a clinician-scientist […]