June 2022
Innovation for Healy Aging Grant: Enhancing Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia
May 2022
Fatima presents at: 51st Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Psycholinguistic Determinants of Naming in Logogenic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia
January 2022
New publications:
Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treating stroke aphasia: Systematic review and meta-analysis in
Clinical Neurophysiology
Electrophysiological abnormalities as indicators of early-stage pathology in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA): A case study in semantic variant PPA in Neurocase
October 2021
Effectiveness of rTMS in treating post-stroke aphasia: Role of stimulation parameters and individual characteristics. Conference talk at 13th Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language
April 2021
Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Grant Awarded to AK: Treatment of Language in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).
October 2020
Poster Presentation at SNL meeting: Effect of excitatory and inhibitory theta burst stimulation (TBS) on resting state connectivity
Poster Presentation at SNL meeting: Altered oscillatory responses to language in the semantic variant of PPA
May 2020
Dr. Kielar presents results of rTMS study at the Research Innovating Showcase, BIO5 Institute
Dr. Kielar interviewed for Thesis Thursday, KXCI 91.3 about using neuromodulation to enhance recovery after the stroke and in dementia
Congratulations Graduating students 2020! Mike, Steffi, Shene, Sara, Katie, Anita, Hanna, Jackie
April 2020
Mike Shen, NSCS & Linguistics, completed honors thesis: fMRI Localizer Task for Cortical Responses to Phonology, Semantics, and Orthography: A Pilot Study
Steffi Haya Pertsovsky, NSCS, completed honors thesis, Effects of Stroke Lesion on Language Performance and White Matter Connectivity in Post-Stroke Aphasia
August 2019
Mike Shen presents his project at the 24th Annual UROC Research Conference, University of Arizona, Graduate College.
June 2019
Dr. Kielar received BIO5 Institute University of Arizona: Team Scholars Program grant to work on non-invasive neurostimulation protocol for treatment of language deficit in post-stroke aphasia
May 2019
Dr. Kielar receives University of Arizona College of Science Dean's Innovation Award
Dr. Kielar publishes a new paper: Slowing is slowing: Delayed neural responses to words are linked to abnormally slow resting state activity in Primary Progressive Aphasia in Neuropsychologia
Dr. Kielar interviewed by NPR KJZZ about using imaging for early dementia detection http://kjzz.org/content/946826/ua-study-language-disorder-could-aid-early-dementia-detection
Congratulations to our Graduates 2019! Kimmy, Alexis, Phoebe, Keena, Alyssa, Stephanie
April 2019
Kimberly Skvarla, NSCS completed undergraduate honors thesis Electrophysiological signature of verb argument processing: ERP study
Alexis Morrison, NSCS completes undergraduate honors thesis “Narrative production in stroke related aphasia and older adults”
Alexis and Kimmy present at the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Poster Forum
March 2019
Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference (CNS), San Francisco, CA, USA. Relationship between phonology, semantics and paste tense inflection in post-stroke aphasia