Brain Imaging Correlates of Practice-Based Rehabilitation in People with Aphasia Caused by Stroke or Dementia

I’m based at The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and my main clinical and academic interest is in cognitive rehabilitation, especially in the field of acquired language disorders. I am developing mechanistic accounts of how cognitive disorders can be improved by different types of therapy -mainly behavioural- using functional and structural brain imaging.

My team have developed a range of web-based rehabilitation tools that can be used by therapists and patients with language problems. I will discuss the behavioural and imaging outcomes (sMRI, fMRI and MEG) from three recent randomised controlled trials of app-based therapies for people with aphasia caused by either stroke or dementia.