Past Events
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CBR Seminar Series: Jet Vonk
CBR Seminar Series: Jet Vonk, November 17, 2025 Title: Quantifying Language in Dementia through Automated Speech Analysis Abstract: Language offers a uniquely sensitive window into brain health, yet traditional approaches to its assessment have been manual, slow, and dependent on specialized expertise. This talk will discuss how automated speech and language analysis... More
Advances in AI: Diagnosis & Treatment of Neurological and Neurodegenerative Disorders Symposium
October 24th, 2025 On Friday, October 24th, leading researchers from the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to present their ground-breaking work leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for detection, treatment, and prediction of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Hosted in collaboration with the... More
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