by Matt Mcgrievy | Oct 14, 2019 | brain imaging, research
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...
by Matt Mcgrievy | Mar 19, 2019 | language assessment, recovery, research
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...
by Matt Mcgrievy | Sep 8, 2018 | brain stimulation, recovery, research
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...
by Matt Mcgrievy | Sep 5, 2018 | advocacy, outreach
Below is a guest post by Lexie Larcinese, a speech pathology master’s student and graduate assistant for C-STAR. During the last six weeks, several individuals with aphasia participated in a course about community leadership and advocacy hosted by Able SC. Able...
by Matt Mcgrievy | Aug 26, 2018 | recovery, research
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....
