Past Events
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CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au
CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au, September 29, 2025 Title: Precision Brain Health: Getting from Here to There Abstract: Clinical research in Alzheimer's disease has been slow to embrace the technological advances that could address many long standing representative gaps. This hesitancy has led to more incremental science. Our precision brain health initiative... More
CBR Seminar Series: Simona Mancini
CBR Seminar Series: Simona Mancini, September 15, 2025 Title: Dynamic interplay between language and domain-general functions Abstract: The relationship between domain-general cognitive processes and language functions has emerged as a critical area of investigation in understanding both typical language processing and recovery from aphasia. Studies on healthy young adults reveal minimal domain-general... More
3rd Annual Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference, 2025
July 28th – 29th, 2025 This year marked the 3rd edition of the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference, drawing in 191 in-person and 27 virtual attendees from across the United States and all over the world with registrants hailing from 12 different countries; including South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, More
CBR Seminar Series: Jennifer Mack
CBR Seminar Series: Jennifer Mack, July 14, 2025 Title: Improving Communication Partners’ Comprehension of People with Aphasia: A Language Processing-Based Approach Abstract: People with aphasia (PWA) often have difficulty conveying their thoughts to communication partners. One way to address this problem is to improve communication partners’ skills in understanding PWA. In a... More
CBR Seminar Series: Stacy Andersen
CBR Seminar Series: Stacy Andersen, June 30, 2025 Title: Characterizing cognitive function and resilience to Alzheimer's disease using digital technologies Abstract: One obstacle to studying cognitive aging is the inability to identify cognitive impairment and cognitive change with adequately high sensitivity and specificity. Brain changes related to aging or to neurodegenerative diseases... More
CBR Seminar Series: Sigfus Kristinsson
Behavioral speech-language therapy (SLT) is the most effective and widely used approach for treating post-stroke aphasia. While effective on average, individual variability in treated recovery continues to be problematic for the development of personalized treatment protocols. Recent research shows that many individuals show a selective response to one treatment paradigm over another, highlighting the need to consider individual and treatment-specific factors—and their interaction—as guides in personalized treatment planning. However, prognostic factors for treatment success remain elusive and understudied. More
Care Onward Panel
On April 28th, 2025, the Center for Brain Recovery co-hosted the Care Onward Panel in collaboration with Stroke Onward. The panel gathered stroke survivors, neurologists, rehabilitation clinicians, researchers, and caregivers to discuss topics of transition care and psychosocial support for stroke and aphasia patients. The list of panelists included numerous accomplished... More
CBR Seminar Series: Preeti Sunderaraman
CBR Seminar Series: Preeti Sunderaraman, May 12, 2025 Title: Innovations in Financial Management Assessment – Preliminary Evidence from a simulated technology task Abstract: Early identification of financial mismanagement is critical, especially in populations vulnerable to impaired cognition. Such populations are known to experience substantial and, at times, recurring financial loss. Despite having tremendous clinical... More
CBR Seminar Series: Michael Alosco
CBR Seminar Series: Michael Alosco, February 24, 2025 Title: Beyond Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Long-Term White Matter and Vascular Consequences of Repetitive TBIs Abstract: Exposure to repetitive traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) from contact and collision sports and other sources have been identified as a risk factor for the neurodegenerative tauopathy chronic traumatic encephalopathy... More
CBR Seminar Series: Sofia Vallila Rohter
CBR Seminar Series: Sofia Vallila Rohter, January 27, 2025 Title: Rehabilitation as Learning: Examining learning and strategy use in people with aphasia Abstract: Linguistic deficits are central to the diagnosis and treatment of aphasia, yet there is increasing recognition of the cognitive processes that contribute to rehabilitation outcomes, particularly the role of... More
CBR Seminar Series: Holly Robson
CBR Seminar Series: Holly Robson, December 16, 2024 Title: Speech comprehension impairments in Wernicke’s-type aphasia. Can basic science open pathways to new interventions? Abstract: Wernicke’s aphasia is characterized by significant impairments in speech comprehension. When it persists into the chronic stage following a stroke, it is often highly resistant to therapeutic interventions. More
CBR Seminar Series: Erin Meier
CBR Seminar Series: Erin Meier, November 25, 2024 Title: Leveraging Wearable Technologies to Increase Ecological Validity of Aphasia Assessment Abstract: A central assumption about language assessments commonly used in research and speech-language pathology practice is that they capture the communication challenges people with aphasia (PWA) face in everyday life. Similarly, neuroimaging paradigms... More
CBR Seminar Series: Haris Themistocleous
CBR Seminar Series: Haris Themistocleous, October 28, 2024 Title: AI in Clinical Therapy and Assessment: A Paradigm Shift in Speech-Language Pathology Abstract: The integration of AI models and applications into Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) is bringing about a paradigm shift in how we assess and treat communication disorders. Tools like automated speech analysis, More
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... More
CBR Seminar Series: Andrew DeMarco
CBR Seminar Series: Andrew DeMarco, September 9, 2024 Title: Innovation and interpretability in lesion-symptom mapping Abstract: Interpretability permits us to confidently link findings from our imaging analysis results back to what we know about neurology and neuroscience, with the goal of addressing cognitive neuroscience questions and, ultimately, informing neurorehabilitation efforts. While innovation... More
CBR Seminar Series: Rene Utianski
CBR Seminar Series: Rene Utianski, June 17, 2024 Title: Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: What have we learned in the last ten years? Abstract: This talk will discuss the neurodegenerative condition Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech (PPAOS). Video samples will be shared to familiarize the audience with what PPAOS sounds like. Research... More
CBR Seminar Series: Valentina Perosa
CBR Seminar Series: Valentina Perosa, May 13, 2024 Title: Interaction Between Microvascular and AD-related pathology in the Medial Temporal Lobe Abstract: Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), which includes cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and arteriolosclerosis, often co-occurs with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. The medial temporal lobe is susceptible to hosting multiple AD pathologies, More
CBR Seminar Series: Stephanie Grasso
CBR Seminar Series: Stephanie Grasso, March 25, 2024 Title: Neurodegenerative Disorders Within the Context of Bilingualism: Characterization and Treatment Abstract: Speech and language impairments are ubiquitous features of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). In speech/language-led dementias such as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), these deficits are the initial, predominant symptoms, in the... More
CBR Seminar Series: Vijaya Kolachalama
CBR Seminar Series: Vijaya Kolachalama, February 12, 2024 Title: Mining clinical and digital data for dementia assessment Abstract: This presentation will delve into our laboratory's recent endeavors in developing an innovative machine learning framework designed to analyze routinely collected multimodal clinical data alongside emerging digital information for dementia assessment. We will provide... More
CBR Seminar Series: Mark Eldaief
CBR Seminar Series: Mark Eldaief, January 22, 2024 Title: The salience network: function, functional neuroanatomy and target for neuropsychiatric disease Abstract: The salience network is a large-scale cortical system encompassing the rostroventral insula and the rostrodorsal anterior cingulate cortex, among other regions. This network has been implicated in the pathobiology of several... More
CBR Seminar Series: Matthias Stangl
CBR Seminar Series: Matthias Stangl, November 20, 2023 Title: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuromodulation: From the Laboratory into the ‘Real World’ Abstract: A major goal of neuroscience is to understand how the brain supports natural human behavior and cognition, in order to ultimately enable the detection and treatment of malfunctions in underlying neural... More
CBR Seminar Series: Abhishek Jaywant
CBR Seminar Series: Abhishek Jaywant, November 13, 2023 Title: Leveraging Neuroimaging to Advance the Development and Refinement of Post-Stroke Cognitive Interventions Abstract: Cognitive impairment after stroke is common, persistent, and disabling. Existing interventions demonstrate mixed evidence for efficacy with modest effect sizes. In this talk, I will describe results from a longitudinal cohort... More
Hariri Sponsored Student Led Workshop
Boston University Hosts Student-Led Workshop on Machine Learning and Brain-Behavior Data Sponsored By Hariri Institute Focused Research Program Unlocking Novel Data Science and AI Approaches for Brain Health and Disease On October 2nd 2023, members of the BU Center for Brain Recovery and Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory conducted a trainee-led tutorial to unite... More
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... More
CBR Seminar Series: Kelly Martin
CBR Seminar Series: Kelly Martin, August 14, 2023 Title: Language system plasticity in healthy development and after perinatal stroke Abstract: In the current talk, I will discuss my dissertation work which examined the cortical organization of language processing to evaluate which features may or may not be essential for a fully intact language... More
CBR Seminar Series: Einat Liebenthal
CBR Seminar Series: Einat Liebenthal, July 17, 2023 Title: Naturalistic approaches to studying verbal and nonverbal communication Abstract: Naturalistic approaches have the potential to uncover the neural mechanisms underlying behavior in real world settings; however, confer the challenge of measuring behaviors of interest in little-controlled experimental conditions. In this talk, I will... More