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Learning in Action: Boston Public School Students Explore Research at CBR
November 7th, 2025 On Friday, November 7th, the BU Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) welcomed a group of juniors and seniors from various local Boston Public Schools (BPS). In an effort coordinated by BU’s Office of Government & Community Affairs in partnership with BU Admissions, BPS students visited Boston University’s campus, explored BU spaces, and […]
HealthDay: Healthy Habits Slash Genetic Dementia Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
HealthDay quoted Dr. Hugo Aparicio, a CBR Core Faculty member, on the importance of heart health in relation to brain health. Read the full article
CBR Student Research Assistants Selected for UROP Funding
Interview with CBR Student Research Assistants Amelia Andre and Helen Blans This semester, two CBR Student Research Assistants were selected to receive UROP funding for their research project applications. Congratulations to Amelia Andre and Helen Blans, both undergraduate students in the neuroscience program in the College of […]
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 Tianqiao and Chrissy […]
Faculty Feature: Stacy Andersen
Dr. Andersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the co-director of the New England Centenarian Study. Q&A with Stacy Andersen What is your current research focus, and how does […]
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, […]
Medical Xpress: How hair and skin characteristics affect brain imaging: Making fNIRS research more inclusive
Medical Xpress featured CBR Core Faculty member Meryem Yücel’s research examining the impact of hair and skin characteristics on the quality of brain signals recorded using fNIRS. This research discovered inequities in data collection, and provides recommendations for best practices to optimize data collection across diverse populations. This study also included contributions from fellow CBR […]
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 has been pursuing […]
What Causes Aphasia?
What is Aphasia? Aphasia is a language disorder that is caused by a stroke or brain trauma. This disorder affects how people communicate and understand language, as it may affect their ability to speak, understand, read, or write. According to the National Aphasia Association, there are more than 2 million people in the United […]
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 […]