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CBR Annual Report 2025
The Center for Brain Recovery’s 2025 Annual Report report features letters from our leadership team, highlights about our recent research, programming, and events, as well as a list of faculty publications (July 2024 – June 2025) matching the Center’s mission. Read the full report
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 involvement in language […]
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, India, and more. With […]
How ICCR Helps Students with TBI Return to College
By Lauren Hodges, August 27th, 2025 For college students and young adults living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the road back to campus can feel overwhelming. Memory lapses, trouble organizing thoughts, or difficulty keeping up with class discussions aren’t just frustrating, they can make the return to higher education seem impossible. This is where […]
Boston 25 News: BU researchers create new AI tool to predict markers of Alzheimer’s disease
Boston 25 News covered CBR Core Faculty member Vijaya Kolachalama’s recent research into levering artificial intelligence for accurately predicting signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full article
How Speech Therapy Helps with Brain Recovery
Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) It is commonly understood that Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) assist children during the developmental stages of speech, but SLPs work with patients of all ages, including adults who have experienced a brain injury resulting in aphasia. Speech-Language Pathology can play a critical role in the brain recovery process, but it is often overlooked […]
Faculty Feature: Alice Cronin-Golomb
Dr. Cronin-Golomb is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the Director of the Vision & Cognition Laboratory. Q&A with Alice Cronin-Golomb, PhD What […]
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 new line […]
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 are known […]
CBR Researchers Present at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2025
This past May, four researchers from the BU Center for Brain Recovery attended and presented at the 2025 Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the conference, CBR Assistant Scientific Director, Maria Varkanitsa, presented the research “Theory of mind deficits in people with post-stroke aphasia: Prevalence and links to aphasia severity and brain […]