Past events: Swathi Kiran. Advances in predicting recovery of language in monolingual and bilingual individuals after stroke: Towards precision rehabilitation

What: Advances in predicting recovery of language in monolingual and bilingual individuals after stroke: Towards precision rehabilitation

Where:  BCBL zoom room 2

Who: Swathi Kiran, PhD. Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, US.

When:  Thursday,  April 7th at 2:30 PM.

In this talk, I will present our ongoing work aimed at predicting language recovery in monolinguals and bilingual individuals after acquired brain injury, particularly after a stroke. I will present work that covers our current understanding of the neural factors that determine the degree of language recovery after post-stroke aphasia and after rehabilitation. I will present evidence for how understanding the brain’s residual network can give us clues towards the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation-induced plasticity. I will then present our work on developing algorithms to predict aphasia recovery in both monolingual and bilingual adults with aphasia. Our goal is to predict individualized/personalized recovery trajectories based on algorithms from brain markers, big data and computational modeling. This recent work has potential to provide personalized recommendations for rehabilitation trajectories for individual patients who have suffered from an acquired brain injury.