Hilary Miller, a PhD candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Sargent College and graduate fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was awarded a Predoctoral Individual National Research Service grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project “Predictors of Speech Motor Sequence Learning in Neurological Disorders.” Miller will […]
(02/28/2022, The Washington Post) Expert quote: “Mushrooms are wonderful sources of the minerals potassium and selenium. Potassium can help lower high blood pressure, while selenium is an antioxidant that protects your cells from free radicals. If free radicals accumulate faster than your body can neutralize them, their damaging effects can contribute to chronic diseases such as […]
(04/08/2022, Healio.com) Expert quote: “Wearable technologies to assess disease parameters and outcomes in patient homes have been gaining more widespread use in rheumatology in recent years, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” – Michael Rose, visiting fellow, Movement & Applied Imaging Lab Read the full article
(04/13/2022, Scientific American) Expert quote: “…stuttering is a problem with the on/off switch. The motors and gears work fine. But the switch doesn’t always turn on when it should. Or it doesn’t stay on as long as it should. This results in delays in initiating a word. Or repetitions of the first part of the […]
In this episode of BU’s Question of the Week podcast, Occupational Therapy Professor Gael Orsmond and PhD student Sharada Krishnan in the Families & Autism Research Lab offer a multifaceted perspective on how and why young women may have a different autistic experience compared to young men. In recent years, an increasing amount of anecdotal evidence […]
(03/31/22, Time) Expert quote: “Not being able to say a full sentence, or saying a sentence where the words sound garbled, is extremely frustrating. It can also cause a person to feel embarrassed or ashamed, so they would rather choose not to speak anymore than to say something and feel embarrassed about it.” – Swathi Kiran, […]
(03/31/22, The Washington Post) Expert Quote: “Sometimes the road to rehabilitation is long and hard, but it’s possible to improve…Not being able to communicate with your family members and loved ones can be very frustrating and very isolating. And so family members really need to help the person feel comfortable taking every opportunity to communicate.” […]
Autism advocate and scientist Dr. Temple Grandin toured Sargent College during her visit to Boston University. Dr. Grandin met with Sargent faculty and students to hear about autism research underway across our programs, including in Sargent’s Families & Autism Research Lab, Human Systems Neuroscience Lab, and Motor Development Lab Later in the day, Dr. Grandin […]
This personal reflection was written by MS in Nutrition student Shikha Advani (Sargent ’22) as part of the course Eating Disorders Treatment and Prevention and has been published on the Walden Behavioral Care blog. In the South Asian community, there is a significant stigma around mental illness. In my childhood, I never heard the term […]
Project Aims to Boost Commercialization of Innovative Wearable and Med Tech Devices Harvard and Boston University have been awarded new grant of $3 million from the State House to support the development of next-generation robotics and wearable technologies. Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to help individuals achieve ambitious fitness goals, […]
(2/14/22, U.S. News & World Report) “The African heritage diet celebrates the culinary legacy of healthy eating for people of African descent. The African heritage diet pyramid is yet another science-based healthy eating option. And it’s about time that we started embracing other cultures and their positive health benefits.” – Clinical Professor of Nutrition Joan […]
(2/1/2022, USA Today) Expert Quote: “If we’re monetizing sexuality or beauty or availability or instant access to somebody, there are all kinds of things that we’re monetizing in that situation that may then have implications for how people treat each other….There is a way in which you can simultaneously try to push back against the […]
(1/18/22, HealthCity) “Engaging communities as partners in research is essential for ensuring that the right questions are asked, appropriate methods are used, results are interpreted in context, and findings are effectively translated. Yet, the experiences and perspectives of many communities are often missing from research studies, especially those of Black, Indigenous, and other people of […]
(12/3/21, Psychology Today) Expert Quote: “This [model] gives us a fighting chance of finding the specific problems underlying stuttering and addressing them with highly targeted drugs or technological treatments that have minimal unwanted side effects.” – Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Professor Frank Guenther Read the full article.
(9/30/21, TheLily) Expert Quote: “This kind of program is an excellent step towards tracking and monitoring violence when it does happen, so that we can better understand risk factors and start to address those factors and ensure safety for LGBTQ+ people…This is step No. 1 in the public health playbook.” – Occupational Therapy Professor and […]