Faculty in Print

Our faculty’s research reaches audiences across the globe. Here’s a selection of publications and articles written by BU Sargent College faculty during 2014–2015.


Arunachalam, S., and Waxman, S. R. (2015). Let’s see a boy and a balloon: argument labels and syntactic frame in verb learning. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 22, 117–131.


Bandini, L., Danielson, M., Esposito, L. E., Foley, J. T., Fox, M. H., Frey, G. C., Fleming, R. K., Krahn, G., Must, A., Porretta, D. L., Rodgers, A. B., Stanish, H., Urv, T., Vogel, L. C., and Humphries, K. (2015). Obesity in children with developmental and/or physical disabilities. Disability and Health Journal, Epub. (3):309–16. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2015.04.005. PMID: 26058685.


Barbas, H., and Zikopoulos, B. (2014). Toward patient-specific targeting and parameter setting of deep brain stimulation for relief of depression. Commentary. Biological Psychiatry, 76: 914–916.


Berger, S., Aravich, D., Dastur, N., Friedman, C., and Son, C. (2014). Changing the trajectory of stroke recovery through interprofessional care. OT Practice, 19(21), 7–12.


Bohland, J. W., Myers, E. M., and Kim, E. (2014). An informatics approach to integrating genetic and neurological data in speech and language neuroscience. Neuroinformatics. 12(1):39–62. doi: 10.1007/s12021-013-9201-6. PMID: 23949335.


Brown, L. (2015). Examination, diagnosis, exercise intervention and outcome for individuals with motor control and motor function disorders. Clinical Exercise Pathophysiology for Physical Therapy (Thorofare, N. J.: Slack, Incorporated).


Starkey, C. A., and Brown, S. D. (2015). Examination and Diagnosis of Orthopedic Injuries, 4 (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis).


Cohn, E. S., Coster, W. J., and Kramer, J. M. (2014). Facilitated learning model to teach habits of evidence-based reasoning across an integrated master of science in occupational therapy curriculum. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68, S73–S82.


Whited, M. C., Schneider, K. L., Appelhans, B. M., Ma, Y., Waring, M. E., DeBiasse, M. A., Busch, A. M., Oleski, J. L., Merriam, P. A., Olendzki, B. C., Crawford, S. L., Ockene, I. S., Lemon, S. C., and Pagoto, S. L. (2014). Severity of depressive symptoms and accuracy of dietary reporting among obese women with major depressive disorder seeking weight loss treatment. PLOS ONE. 9(2):e90361. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090361. PMID: 24587338.


Cavanaugh, J. T., Ellis, T. D., Earhart, G. M., Ford, M. P., Foreman, K. B., and Dibble, L. E. (2015). Toward understanding ambulatory activity decline in Parkinson disease. Physical Therapy. PMID: 25858971.


García-Cabezas, M. Á., Barbas, H. (2014). Area 4 has layer IV in adult primates. European Journal of Neuroscience, Epub. (11):1824–34. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12585. PMID: 24735460.


Gill, S. V. (2015). The impact of weight classification on safety: timing steps to adapt to external constraints. Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions, 15, 103–108.


Heislein, D. M. Total hip arthroplasty clinical summary. PTNow.org, American Physical Therapy Association.


Asbeck, A., DeRossi, M. M., Holt, K. G., and Walsh, C. J. (2015). A biologically inspired soft exosuit for walking assistance. International Journal of Robotics Research. 1–19.


Hoover, E. L., Caplan, D., Waters, G., and Budson, A. (2015). Effects of impairment-based individual and socially oriented group therapies on verb production in aphasia. Aphasiology, 29(7), 781–798.


Cason, J., and Jacobs, K. (2014). Snapshots of current telehealth applications in occupational therapy. OT Practice, 7–12.


Cornwell, E. W., Mirbod, A., Wu, C. L., Kandarian, S. C., and Jackman, R. W. (2014). C26 cancer-induced muscle wasting is IKKß-dependent and NF-kappaB-independent. PLOS ONE. 9(1):e87776. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087776. PMID: 24489962.


Kidd, G. Jr., Mason, C. R., and Best, V. (2014). The role of syntax in maintaining the integrity of streams of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, 766–777.


Kiran, S., Meier, E. L., Kapse, K. J., and Glynn, P. A. (2015). Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:316.


Kramer, J. (2015). Identifying and evaluating the therapeutic strategies used during a manualized self-advocacy intervention for transition-age youth. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 35, (1), 23–33.


Langmore, S. E., and Pisegna, J. M. (2015). Efficacy of exercises to rehabilitate dysphagia: a critique of the literature. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 17(3):222–9.


Lewis, C. L., Foch, E., Luko, M. M., Loverro, K. L., and Khuu, A. (2015). Differences in lower extremity and trunk kinematics between single leg squat and step down tasks. PLOS ONE. 10(5):e0126258. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.012625.


Caron, R., Lewis, C. L., Saltzman, E., Wagenaar, R.C., and Holt, K.G. (2015). Musculoskeletal stiffness changes linearly in response to increasing load during walking gait. Journal of Biomechanics. 48:1165–1171.


Lowenstein, N., and Halloran, T. (2015). Case studies through the health care continuum: a workbook for the occupational therapy student (2nd ed). (Thorofare, N.J.: Slack, Incorporated).


Marinko, L. N., Christie, R. E., and Lewis, C. L. (2015). Successful rehabilitation of a young adult with total hip arthroplasty a decade after a girdlestone procedure: a case report, PM&R. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2015.04.002.


Gao, Y. Z., Saphirstein, R. J., Yamin, R., Suki, B., and Morgan, K. G. (2014). Aging impairs smooth muscle-mediated regulation of aortic stiffness: a defect in shock absorption function? American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 307(8):H1252–61. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00392.2014. PMID: 25128168.


Mueser, K. T., and Duva, S. M. (2014). Schizophrenia. The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Psychology: Updated Edition (D.H. Barlow, Ed.), 476–510. (New York: Oxford University Press. Published Oxford Handbooks Online), 1–46.


Orsmond, G. I., and Cohn, E. S. (2015). The distinctive features of a feasibility study: objectives and guiding questions. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research: Occupation, Participation, & Health, 35, 169–177.


Perrachione, T. K., Stepp, C. E., Hillman, R. E., and Wong, P. C. M. (2014). Talker identification across source mechanisms: experiments with laryngeal and electrolarynx speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 1651–1665.


Greece, J. A., Kratze, A., DeJong, W., Cozier, Y. C., and Quatromoni, P. A. (2015). Body mass index and sociodemographic predictors of school lunch purchase behavior during a year-long environmental intervention in middle school. Behavioral Sciences (Basel). 5(2):324–40. doi: 10.3390/bs5020324. PMID: 26067683.


Lien, Y. S., Michener, C. M., Eadie, T. L., and Stepp, C. E. (2015). Individual monitoring of vocal effort with relative fundamental frequency: relationships with aerodynamics and listener perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.


Segawa, J. A., Tourville, J. A., Beal, D. S., and Guenther, F. H. (2015). The neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 819–831.


Evans, W. S., Caplan, D., Ostrowski, A., Michaud, J., Guarino, A., and Waters, G. (2015). Working memory and the revision of syntactic and discourse ambiguities. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 136–155.


Latham, N. K., Harris, B. A., Bean, J. F., Heeren, T., Goodyear, C., Zawacki, S., Heislein, D. M., Mustafa, J., Pardasaney, P., Giorgetti, M., Holt, N., Goehring, L., and Jette, A. M. (2014). Effect of a home-based exercise program on functional recovery following rehabilitation after hip fracture: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 311(7):700–8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.469.