Spotlight Blog: Understanding Primary Progressive Aphasia, Bruce Willis and Wendy Williams’s Diagnoses
BU Center for Brain Recovery Researchers Discuss: Understanding Primary Progressive Aphasia, Bruce Willis’s and Wendy Williams’s Diagnoses The recent diagnoses of Bruce Willis and Wendy Williams have brought a spotlight to a relatively lesser-known condition called primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and its broader category, frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Willis’s family revealed in 2022 that the beloved […]
First Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference at Boston University, co-hosted by Chen Institute
Introduction to the Conference Neuroscience in the Everyday World is a new avenue of research that Boston University’s Center for Brain Recovery, Neurophotonics Center, and researchers alike are exploring with great interest. The use of fNIRS, machine learning, eye tracking, and other technologies are making it possible for the brain to be studied in real […]
Featured Article: CSD Program Makes College Possible After Brain Injury
The Aphasia Research Laboratory’s very own Intensive Cognitive and Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) program was featured in the June 2019 edition of the ASHA Leader, the monthly newsmagazine for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. To Read the ASHA Leader’s ICCR article, click here.
Featured Article: A New Semester
To read the Inside Sargent ICCR article, click here.
Read our recent paper: Typicality-based semantic treatment for anomia results in multiple levels of generalisation
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.
Erin Meier receives F31 NIH fellowship grant
Doctoral Student Erin Meier just received in NIH sponsored F31 grant to work on connectivity mechanisms to explain language recovery in patients with aphasia. Check out her profile here: Erin Meier
Our latest paper on treatment and generalization of sentence comprehension is now out #AJSLP #ASHAJOURNALS
Our recent paper on #semantic #verbalfluency #aphasia published in International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
Read our latest work on #semantic #verbalfluency #aphasia #switching. Bose, A., Wood, R. & Kiran, S. (2016). Semantic fluency in aphasia. Clustering and switching in the course of one minute. International Journal of Communication Disorders.
A fantastic #AOA2016 meeting in beautiful llandudno, Wales! Excellent #science #aphasia Keynote on #DTI, talks, #ceilidhdancing and excursions to #conwy
Teens teaching technology program at BU_BU Today close up
For eight weeks this summer, high school students taught stroke survivors how to use various forms of technology, smart phones, tablets, computers and various types of software. This program allowed high school students to understand more about aphasia and allowed stroke survivors to learn and troubleshoot their technology problems. Here is a picture on BU […]