This post was written by Dr. Lisa Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina. Background At C-STAR, not only are we aiming to identify treatment approaches that can improve language deficits in persons with chronic aphasia, but we also investigate what...
This post is written by PhD student Sigfus Kristinsson. Sigfus recently had a paper accepted by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience about how the brain understands different types of sentences. Below is a preliminary summary of the article, which will be published...
Ongoing work in the C-STAR has been focusing on understanding predictors of long-term recovery in individuals with chronic aphasia. Doctoral student, Lisa Johnson, is the lead author on a recently accepted article for publication in the American Journal of Speech...
The last post described our recently completed Phase II Clinical Trial using non-invasive brain stimulation as an adjunct to aphasia treatment. See this link for details. Briefly, that post described results from the trial, which found that anodal transcranial direct...
Last week, Dr. Fridriksson and his team published an article about a recently completed clinical trial studying brain stimulation to improve aphasia treatment. The results of this study showed that brain stimulation to treat aphasia is safe and worth further study....
Recently, the C-STAR group, led by Dr. Greg Hickok, published an article in the journal Cortex. The article is titled, “Neural networks supporting audiovisual integration for speech: A large-scale lesion study.” This was the first study that included information from...
Below is a guest post by Lynsey Keator, MA, CCC-SLP. Lynsey is a speech-language pathologist who currently works with Dr. Argye Hillis at Johns Hopkins. She will be joining the USC Aphasia Lab in the Fall to begin her doctoral work. Her post summarizes a recently...
This post was written by guest blogger, Dr. Grant Walker. Dr. Walker is a C-STAR postdoctoral scholar located at the University of California at Irvine. In this post, he describes a study he recently published in the journal Psychological Assessment. You can find the...
This post is a summary of our recently published article, The Anatomy of Aphasia Revisited. This article appears in the March 2018 issue of the journal Brain. Link to full text here. In this study, we asked several questions that are very important to aphasia...
Earlier this week, EurekaAlert!, an online news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), featured a research article published by our MUSC team. Emilie McKinnon, the lead author of the study, is an MD., PhD candidate at the...