Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU

"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.

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Doris Wang, an Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, presented during the first Symposium at the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference 2025, held at Boston University. Symposium #1 was entitled: Neuroprosthetics and Neuromodula N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Doris Wang: Implanted Neural Interfaces to Improve Walking in Parkinson’s

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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Our speakers presented their innovative research applying advances in artificial intelligence to improve our ability to detect, predict, and treat neurological disorders.

Hosted in collaboration with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, this event brought together Boston University community members, alumni, and parents alongside neurotechnology and healthcare industry professionals and scholars.

On October 24th, leading researchers from the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to present their groundbreaking work leveraging #AI and #MachineLearning for diagnosis and treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.

Really looking forward to this seminar. We are doing so much work in #DigitalTech for #assessments and #treatments- happy to share and get feedback

How can tactical sensation impact robotic limb performance?

At #NEWconf2025, Jennifer Collinger presented numerous projects from her lab on the topic of bidirectional brain-computer interfaces for restoring upper limb function.

Watch her full talk at

This morning, the Center for Brain Recovery received a special visit from Boston University's community resource dog, Bean!

Bean immediately brightened up the office and brought plenty of play and cuddles to the CBR team.

Thanks for stopping by our center, Bean!

Marom Bikson, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City College of New York, opened the first Symposium at the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (N.E.W.) Conference 2025, held at Boston University. Symposium #1 was entitled: Neuroprosthetics and Neuromodulation from Clinic to Daily Life. Bikson N.E.W. Conference 2025 | Marom Bikson: Wearable Disposable Electrotherapy

What if electrotherapy was available like a band-aid?

At #NEWconf2025, Marom Bikson presented his team's research on Wearable Disposable Electrotherapy.

Learn more by watching his full talk on the CBR YouTube channel

Join us Monday, September 29th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Rhoda Au, Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, as well as a PI of the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program.

Register now at http://bit.ly/47ORaie

Congratulations! The impact of your work is huge across so many fields!

#BilingualAphasia #Stroke #AphasiaRecovery #Generalization

💡 Takeaway: Semantic feature-based treatment promotes gains across languages and linguistic domains in Spanish-English bilinguals with aphasia
💭 Next: How do dose, intensity, and individual differences shape transfer?
📂 Open dataset coming: http://osf.io/mcu36

Results showed:
1) Improvement for trained and untrained naming targets (direct transfer)
2) Gains in select semantic processing tasks (near transfer)
3) Improved overall language function (WAB-AQ) but not domain-general cog (both far transfer)
🎉 Benefits across both languages

Measurement of cross-language and cross-domain generalization following semantic feature-based anomia treatment in bilingual aphasia Semantic feature-based treatment (SFT), which engages the semantic network by repeatedly targeting retrieval of conceptual features to improve lexical-semantic access, has shown promise for facilit...

🧠 Goal: To examine patterns of near/far transfer and cross-language generalization following naming therapy

👥 48 Spanish-English bilinguals with chronic aphasia
🏥Therapy: Semantic feature-based treatment
Read the full paper: 🔗

📢 New Bilingual Aphasia Research!

“Measurement of cross-language and cross-domain generalization following semantic feature-based anomia treatment in bilingual aphasia”

By Marissa Russell-Meill, Erin Carpenter, Manuel J. Marte, Michael Scimeca, Claudia Peñaloza & Swathi Kiran

Excited to be editing this special issue with @qzhever.bsky.social on this super current topic of “Neural Basis of Language Processing in the Wild” see link for submission guidelines

Boston University Center for Brain Recovery

Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue releasing presentations from the N.E.W. Conference. Subscribe to stay updated: youtube.com/@bucenterfor...

His presentation highlights his research into human navigational behavior across diverse global populations. Using innovative tools such as video games, Spiers and his team have uncovered new insights into how individuals orient themselves in complex environments—from urban grids to open waters.