Student Highlight! - Beth Young

Our wonderful lab member, Elizabeth (Beth) Young, was accepted into the UNM LEND program as a trainee.

LEND stands for Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND).
The principal goal of the program is to prepare soon-to-be clinicians who will be working with children with developmental disabilities to advocate for themselves, their clients, and the broad community of children with disabilities and their families. Leadership is emphasized in the program for this reason.

Beth started this fall, and she intends to focus on early-acquired neurological impact, such as TBI and prenatal drug exposure.

This page summarizes the program curriculum nicely: https://www.cdd.unm.edu/nmlend/Curriculum/Overview.html

McNair Scholar

Gabriela Quevedo was recently inducted as a McNair Scholar! Congratulations Gabriela!
 
She will be working in the lab on a project focused on discourse in aphasia in French and Spanish speakers. Exciting!

Poster winner, UNM Neuroscience Day

Our doctoral student, Sarah Grace Dalton, recently won the poster competition for Neuroscience Day, quite an honor!
Her poster presentation was judged, by a panel comprised of UNM School of Medicine affiliates and Albuquerque community members, on the basis of effectiveness in communicating to a non-expert audience.
Sarah Grace will soon be going on a trip to the Alan Alda Center of Communicating Science at Stony Brook University for a summer boot camp.

Lab Publication Update - Article in Aphasiology

"Main concepts for three different discourse tasks in a large non-clinical sample"
Aphasiology
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02687038.2015.1057891

Lab Publication Update - Article in AJSLP

"Core-Lexicon and Main-Concept Production During Picture-Sequence Description in Adults Without Brain Damage and Adults with Aphasia"
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140462 

Publication Update - Article in NeuroRehabilitation

"Feasibility of using high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to enhance treatment outcomes in persons with aphasia"
NeuroRehabilitation
http://content.iospress.com/articles/neurorehabilitation/nre1199 

Funding for the Center for Brain Recovery and Repair

Despite the budget cuts, the Notice of Award was finally granted. Here is a link to more information about this new center, the Center for Brain Recovery and Repair.

http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/P20-GM109089-01A1