Past Events
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CBR Seminar Series: Jessica Richardson
CBR Seminar Series: Jessica Richardson, March 9, 2026 Title: Toward Precision Neurorehabilitation in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Lessons from Review, Modeling, and Remote Intervention Abstract: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative language disorder for which behavioral speech-language treatment shows promise, yet the evidence base remains limited by heterogeneous designs and insufficient integration of... More
CBR Seminar Series: Alex Leff
CBR Seminar Series: Alex Leff, February 9, 2026 Title: Practice-induced changes in brain structure: evidence from two app-based trials in people with aphasia Abstract: People with acquired aphasia can improve their language abilities with impairment-based training, but the effects are usually item specific. We developed two apps, one for comprehension (Listen-In) and one... More
CBR Seminar Series: Fatemeh Geranmayeh
CBR Seminar Series: Fatemeh Geranmayeh, December 15, 2025 Title: Online monitoring technology for deep phenotyping of cognitive impairment after stroke Abstract: Stroke remains one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, affecting over 12 million people annually and leaving many survivors with lasting cognitive and communicative impairments. Accurate, scalable monitoring of... More
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