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...
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....
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...
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...
Hello, readers! As I said in my previous post, this section of the website is dedicated to discussion of ongoing work in the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR). But first, some background about our work: Here at C-STAR, our research focuses on...