27.4596, FYI: Online Lecture on Language Recovery after Stroke

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Subject: 27.4596, FYI: Online Lecture on Language Recovery after Stroke

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:28:55
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online Lecture on Language Recovery after Stroke

 
Wednesday, November 16th, 2.30pm EDT
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/667426173

“Understanding functional reorganization to explain recovery of language after
stroke” 
Cathy J. Price, Ph.D.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London, UK

This talk will consider how and when neural systems can functionally
re-organize themselves after damage; and why functional re-organisation is
faster in some patients than others.  I will argue on the basis of anatomical
and functional neuroimaging data that some tasks can be successfully
completed, more or less effectively, in more than one way.  Some of these
alternative strategies (and neural pathways) are present in the healthy brain,
explaining why damage to only one system can be compensated for by learning to
rely on another available system.  Other potential neural pathways are
atypical (only seen when all the typical systems have been damaged) and in
these cases re-learning takes time, with slower and less accurate performance.
 Identifying all the different ways that a task can be performed requires an
iterative combination of lesion, behavioural and functional neuroimaging
studies in large cohorts of patients with diverse lesion sites. It also
requires us to make a clear distinction between inconsistency in outcomes that
are the consequence of inter-patient variability in lesion site versus
inter-patient variability in functional anatomy.  This endeavour is
challenging but important for understanding why patients with language
difficulties (i.e. aphasia) after stroke can have very different recovery
trajectories even when they have seemingly similar brain lesions, baseline
language impairments and therapy input.

Location: University of South Carolina, Discovery I, Room #140, 915 Greene
Street, Columbia, SC 29208
Date: Wednesday November 16th, 2016
Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm EDT

The lecture can also be followed online from your computer, tablet or
smartphone, via the following GoToMeeting address (no password required):
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/667426173

You can also dial in using your phone. 

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C-START Lecture Series:

The Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR;
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/) houses researchers who examine the
effects of behavioral treatment, brain stimulation, and residual brain
function (brain plasticity) on recovery from aphasia. C-STAR is a
collaboration between researchers from the University of South Carolina, the
Medical University of South Carolina, Johns Hopkins University, and the
University of California, Irvine. The Center is funded through the National
Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD) grant #NIH P50
DC014664. Biweekly public lectures, given by members and guests of C-STAR, are
accessible live and online. Recordings of the lectures can be viewed via
C-STAR YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8p0CuG4He9nqCR4nnzhZ7w
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics





 



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