This is a continuation of a program for the study of clinical, neurolinguistic and neuroanatomic aspects of aphasia. The long term objectives are to advance the understanding of the mechanisms of normal language and their neural basis so as to develop a coherent view of how the symptomatology of aphasia relates to the injury of particular brain structures and consequent modification of linguistic and cognitive capacities. A concurrent goal is apply developing theoretical insights to a rationally based diagnostic assessment and treatment of aphasia. Specific goals in the proposed project period and methods of accomplishing them are: 1. To investigate disorders of sentence comprehension and sentence production in terms of the explanatory power of specific cognitive and linguistic principles. 2. To study word production and word comprehension with techniques that probe the unfolding of these processes and their breakdown in real time. 3. To study the long term recovery of aphasics in terms of changes in neurological, linguistic, cognitive and social function. 4. To study the basis for perseveration in aphasia, and the basis for its improvement with therapy. 5. To investigate the neurochemical basis of nonfluency in aphasia and its pharmacological treatment, using bromocriptine. 6. To investigate the role of the right hemisphere in mediating language recovery in aphasia. 7. To study the CT and MRI scan lesion correlates of long term recovery in particular language skills and to compare the effectiveness of these two imaging techniques.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
5P50DC000081-27
Application #
3105494
Study Section
Communication Disorders Review Committee (CDRC)
Project Start
1977-12-01
Project End
1995-11-30
Budget Start
1991-12-01
Budget End
1992-11-30
Support Year
27
Fiscal Year
1992
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Boston University
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
604483045
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02118
Zeng, Yong; Petralia, Ronald S; Vijayasarathy, Camasamudram et al. (2016) Retinal Structure and Gene Therapy Outcome in Retinoschisin-Deficient Mice Assessed by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 57:OCT277-87
Kurowski, Kathleen; Blumstein, Sheila E (2016) Phonetic basis of phonemic paraphasias in aphasia: Evidence for cascading activation. Cortex 75:193-203
Mirman, Daniel; Yee, Eiling; Blumstein, Sheila E et al. (2011) Theories of spoken word recognition deficits in aphasia: evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling. Brain Lang 117:53-68
Myung, Jong-yoon; Blumstein, Sheila E; Yee, Eiling et al. (2010) Impaired access to manipulation features in Apraxia: evidence from eyetracking and semantic judgment tasks. Brain Lang 112:101-12
Kurowski, Kathleen M; Blumstein, Sheila E; Palumbo, Carole L et al. (2007) Nasal consonant production in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics: speech deficits and neuroanatomical correlates. Brain Lang 100:262-75
Connor, L (2001) Memory in old age: patterns of decline and preservation. Semin Speech Lang 22:117-25