William Graves
Rutgers University-Newark, NJ·Psychology
After a stroke, many people develop aphasia, a long-term language disorder, and most of them also struggle to read. Roughly 2 million Americans live with aphasia, and about 68% meet strict criteria for acquired dyslexia, reading loss caused by brain injury.
- Fields
Psychology
Neuroscience
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
acquired dyslexia
aphasia
stroke
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Develop neural network accounts of post-stroke dyslexias by lesioning a model that links spelling, sound and meaning, then re-training it to simulate damage and recovery in groups and individual patients.
- Extend the reading model to simulate rehabilitation with treatments such as phonomotor treatment and semantic feature analysis, predicting which therapy best targets each person's impaired reading components.
- Test whether computational model-based personalized treatment improves reading in people with aphasia and acquired dyslexia more than less tailored approaches.
More about the research
Losing the ability to read text, email and social media sharply reduces quality of life. Several therapies exist, but there is no standard of care and no evidence-based way to choose which therapy suits a given patient's pattern of reading problems.
Why it matters
Stroke survivors with aphasia and acquired dyslexia currently receive reading therapy without a reliable way to predict which option will work for them. A model that matches each person's reading difficulties to a targeted treatment could help clinicians personalize therapy, potentially improving reading and quality of life for these patients.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Swathi Kiran
Boston University, MA·Neuroscience
Characterize the lexical and semantic impairments observed in bilingual post-stroke aphasia and bilingual semantic dementia, and explain how they arise, using the BILEX computational model's maps and connections.
Jerzy P Szaflarski
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL·Neuroscience
Quantify brain temperature patterns using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and thermometry, which reads temperature from the shift between creatine and water signals, and compare treatment-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, controlled epilepsy, and healthy controls.
Adeen Flinker
New York University, NY·Neuroscience
Map the integration periods, the time windows over which neurons combine sound, across primary and non-primary auditory cortex, using direct cortical recordings in neurosurgical patients.
The school
Rutgers University-Newark: 3 labs on PI Pages, $26M a year on research, 80 research doctorates a year.
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