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History of the Center for Brain Recovery

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  Our History The Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) was first established at Boston University in 2009 as the “Aphasia Research Laboratory” with the primary goal of understanding language processing and communication following brain damage. Following the initiation of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, the lab received its first PhD student in 2010. Since then, 16 […]

The CBR Internship Program

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Interview with Scientific Director Maria Varkanitsa and Intern Isabel Yu The Undergraduate Internship Experience Isabel Yu, is an undergraduate neuroscience student at Boston University and has been a member of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) internship program since the fall. Through working with Manuel Marte on his “Naturalistic Neuroimaging for Presurgical Language Mapping” research […]

Dr. Swathi Kiran receives the Honors of the Association Award

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CBR Founding Director Dr. Swathi Kiran receives the Honors of the Association Award from the  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.  The Honors of the Association recognizes members for their distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders, whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the professions […]

9 CBR Students Present Their Research Around the World

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Featuring interviews with Student Presentations at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL) in Brisbane, Australia, and the Academy of Aphasia 62nd Annual Meeting in Nara, Japan.  About the conferences The Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), founded in November of 2010, is an NIH-funded non-profit organization whose overarching goal is to […]

Visiting the Center for Brain Recovery: Interview with BU CBR Alumni Visiting Scholars Karen Arellano and Brandi BeCoats.

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The Center for Brain Recovery hosts a passionate team of undergraduate and master’s students, PhD candidates, faculty and staff. CBR also welcomes visiting students and interns from other institutions to collaborate on research projects and receive valuable training. In this edition, we interviewed two of our visiting scholars Karen Arellano and Brandi BeCoats to share […]

Using Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction to Identify Lesion Patterns Predictive of Post-Stroke Aphasia Severity

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Interview with CBR Undergraduate Student Emerson Kropp about his recent research: Using Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction to Identify Lesion Patterns Predictive of Post-Stroke Aphasia Severity Introduction Emerson Kropp is an undergraduate student at Boston University studying under Dr. Kiran in the Center for Brain Recovery as he completes his premedical bachelors degree in Health Science/ Human […]