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By making a gift, you will be directly supporting our programs & research, helping us to continue enhancing diagnosis & treatments for people with neurological disorders.
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#BilingualAphasia #Stroke #AphasiaRecovery #Treatment #ErrorAnalysis
💡 Takeaway: Detailed error analysis provides a richer understanding of bilingual aphasia recovery and may guide more personalized, effective therapy
💭 Next: Examine bilingual word-retrieval in language comprehension contexts such as: reading or listening
Results showed:
1) At the group level, trained words and their translations improved
2) Baseline error profiles predicted treatment outcomes
3) Over the course of therapy, error patterns shifted, reflecting recovery and reorganization of the bilingual lexical-semantic network.
🧠 Goal: To identify word retrieval patterns as a function of word retrieval treatment
👥 48 Spanish-English bilinguals with chronic aphasia
🏥Therapy: Semantic feature-based treatment
Read the full paper: 🔗 www.bu.edu/cbr/publi...
📢 In case you missed it: New evolution of treatment research
“The evolution of word retrieval errors during semantic feature-based therapy in bilingual aphasia”
By Michael Scimeca, Claudia Peñaloza, Erin Ann Carpenter, Manuel Jose Marte, Marissa Russell-Meill, and Swathi Kiran
Dr. Swathi Kiran was recently welcomed on the Neurorehab Resources and Insights podcast to speak with Drs. Jyutika Mehta & Marie McNeely about language recovery following stroke and traumatic brain injury.
🔊 Listen to the full episode https://bit.ly/3Mur0cm
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CBR is proud to be sponsoring MedAI Hack, a 2-day hackathon to build AI on real biomedical datasets. Create work that can impact research & patient care while competing for cash prizes.
📆 April 10 & 11, 2026
👥 Open to entire BU community
🔗 Learn more http://medaihack.org/
Join us Monday, February 9th from 4-5pm ET for a talk by Alex Leff, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London.
"Practice-induced changes in brain structure: evidence from two app-based trials in people with aphasia"
Register now: bostonu.zoom.us/meet...
Unfortunately, due to the major snowstorm impacting our area, this CBR Seminar Series event has been canceled.
To be alerted of future CBR events, please follow our page or subscribe to our newsletter: www.bu.edu/cbr/about/su...
Recently quoted in TIME, The Washington Post, and Business Insider, CBR Core Faculty member Dr. Stacy Andersen is a leading expert on cognitive health and resilience among #centenarians.
Learn more about Dr. Andersen and her research www.bu.edu/cbr/2025/...
Join us Monday, January 26th from 4-5pm ET for a talk by Sean Dukelow, Professor in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Calgary.
Title: Recovery of Post-Stroke Aphasia with Multi-Modal Aphasia Therapy (MMAT) and rTMS
Register now bostonu.zoom.us/meet...
In the National Aphasia Association's upcoming webinar, Madeline Dunne (CBR PhD Student) will talk alongside Kim Irby (NAA Project Manager) about their current project involving people with aphasia in research and care.
You can watch the webinar 12-1pm (ET) on January 14
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Congratulations, Dr. Michael Scimeca! On January 7th, Scimeca defended his PhD dissertation titled "Multimodal Assessment of Alexia in Bilinguals with Aphasia".
Dr. Scimeca completed his PhD through @sargentcollege.bsky.social and was mentored by Dr. Swathi Kiran.
Dr. Swathi Kiran was awarded 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar status by ScholarGPS for her career accomplishments in the field of Aphasia, ranking within the top 0.05% of aphasia scholars based on publication impact, quantity, and quality.
Learn more: www.bu.edu/cbr/2026/...
From all of us at CBR, we'd like to wish you a joyful holiday season and a great new year.
As we reflect on this past year, we would like to thank you for your support and engagement in our mission. With your help, our Center has been able to make great advances in improving our understanding of neurological disorders and developing innovative approaches to improving brain recovery.
"Online monitoring technology for deep phenotyping of cognitive impairment after stroke"
Join us Monday, Dec 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Fatemeh Geranmayeh @f-geranmayeh.bsky.social, Clinician Scientist at Imperial College London.
Register now: bostonu.zoom.us/meet...
At #NEWconf2025, Doris Wang, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, presented her team's research on Implanted Neural Interfaces to Understand and Improve Walking in Parkinson’s Disease.
@doriswang.bsky.social
Learn more by watching her full talk
Earlier this month, CBR welcomed a group of juniors and seniors from various local Boston Public Schools (BPS).
While visiting, BPS students learned about four distinct research project methodologies, guided by CBR team members.
Learn more about their visit: http://bit.ly/44ltYFA
Learn more about this state-of-the-art and newly published handbook: www.bu.edu/cbr/2025/...
This text serves as a comprehensive survey of the field of language and brain, with contributions from over 30 world-renowned and interdisciplinary experts in the areas of neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology.
📖 Newly Published: Last month marked the release of The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain, co-edited by CBR’s Founding Director, Dr. Swathi Kiran, alongside Dr. Edna Andrews from Duke University.
www.bu.edu/cbr/2025/...
Funded by PCORI, CBR will be partnering with the National Aphasia Association and NSU Florida on an initiative to identify the most significant impacts faced by people with aphasia and establish research priorities for the future.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JL963s
Yanmei Tie, Tyler K. Perrachione, Swathi Kiran, Manuel Marte, and Einat Liebenthal stand next to one another
A title slide for a dissertation defense: A Multimodal and Naturalistic Approach to Assessment in Aphasia
Happy to share that I recently defended my dissertation! Big thanks to my committee, my INCREDIBLE colleagues, and
@swathikiran.bsky.social especially – for the many years of guidance, and for creating a rich, rigorous, collaborative intellectual environment at the Center for Brain Recovery.
Join us Monday, November 17th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Jet Vonk, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Title: Quantifying Language in Dementia through Automated Speech Analysis
Register now: https://bit.ly/3X1Xa0B
Dr. Marte completed his PhD through Sargent College's Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, and was mentored by Dr. Swathi Kiran, director of the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery.
Congratulations to Dr. Manuel J. Marte for successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled "A multimodal and naturalistic approach to assessment in aphasia"! @mjm.bsky.social
Presenting and sharing our work on #aphasia at the 2025 Academy of Aphasia meeting in San Diego
Thank you again to all of our attendees and our host, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute.
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