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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 […]
Theory of Mind Deficits in People with Post-Stroke Aphasia
Acknowledgements This work was conducted as part of a larger NIH-funded project titled “Functional reorganization of the language and domain-general multiple demand systems in aphasia” (NIDCD Grant 1R01DC016950, PIs: Swathi Kiran and Evelina Fedorenko). It reflects a collaborative effort from current and former researchers at the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery, including Maria […]
Faculty Feature: Archana Venkataraman
Dr. Venkataraman is an Associate Professor at Boston University, a Core Faculty member for the Center for Brain Recovery, and the Principal Investigator for the BU Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory. Q&A with Archana Venkataraman What is your current research focus, and how does it align with the […]
Neurology Today: Can Large Language Models Eliminate Biases in Health Care?
Vijaya Kolachalama, CBR Core Faculty member, was quoted by Neurology Today in their article exploring research into implementation of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare. Read the full article
Yahoo News: How AI Could Change the Way Doctors Diagnose and Treat Dementia
CBR Core Faculty member, Vijaya Kolachalama, was quoted by Yahoo News in an article discussing the potential benefits of leveraging AI for dementia diagnoses. Read the full article
Daniel Marcelo’s Stroke Story
In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month, we would like to highlight the story of Daniel Marcelo, a stroke survivor who started language therapy with the BU Center for Brain Recovery in 2022 as part of a randomized, controlled clinical trial entitled “Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling (PROCoM)”. If you would like to […]
American Heart Association: Speaking more than one language can add layers to stroke recovery
Dr. Swathi Kiran, Director of the Center for Brain Recovery, was recently featured as an expert on bilingual aphasia in the American Heart Association’s article, “Speaking more than one language can add layers to stroke recovery”. Read the full article
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.