Funded PHD candidate position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center of excellence Severo Ochoa)
Funded PHD candidate position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center of excellence Severo Ochoa)The BCBL invites applications for four 4-year full-time Ph.D positions in Cognitive Neuroscience funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Universities, within the call “Ayudas Predoctorales Severo Ochoa 2019” (to be opened in the fall 2019). The thesis projects/positions will be included in the following research lines: One PhD position: Neurobiological indices of language development in infancy (under the supervision of D...
Source: Talking Brains - July 29, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
New Book on VSED – The Last Ten Days – Academia, Dementia, and the Choice to Die
Over the past five years, a number of family members have shared first person accounts of their loved one's death through voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED). The latest one is The Last Ten Days - Academia, Dementia, and the Choice to Die. The following is from the publisher.
The Last Ten Days: Academia, Dementia, and the Choice to Die is a heartrending memoir of love, scholarship, dignity, courage, and the choices one is forced to make when given the devastating diagnosis of a terminal illness.
Spanning sixty years, this extraordinary book recounts the love story of Martha Risberg Brosio and her hus...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 29, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral Fellow position at the University of South Carolina
A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available at the University of South Carolina, under the direction of Prof. William Matchin in the NeuroSyntax laboratory. The post-doc will help develop new projects and lead the acquisition, processing, and analysis of behavioral and neuroimaging data. They will also assist with the organization of the laboratory and coordination of laboratory members. We are particularly interested in candidates with a background in linguistics who are interested in projects at the intersection of linguistics and neuroscience. For more information about our research program, please visit www.willia...
Source: Talking Brains - July 2, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
A medical student ’s biggest fear
It was the last week of my EMS elective. I was incredibly lucky to ride with one of the EMS captains who was eager to take me to any call that sounded interesting. We were called to a possible stroke. An 82-year-old woman with sudden-onset unilateral weakness and expressive aphasia. The paramedic and EMT on […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ariana-trautmann" rel="tag" > Ariana Trautmann < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
Postdoc Positions in Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication at the University of Connecticut
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication-CT program is funded by a T32 Institutional Research Service Award from the NIH (Inge-Marie Eigsti& Emily Myers, Program Directors). The goal of this program is to provide targeted training in the cognitive neuroscience of communication disorders to predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars. We invite applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships, to begin in the Fall of 2019.Postdoctoral trainees will work under the supervision of one or more mentors on the CNC-CT team. These mentors are: Richard Aslin (Haskins Labs and University of Connecticut), Inge-Marie Eigsti, D...
Source: Talking Brains - March 26, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD scholarship/stipends: Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.
Applications are invited for PhD scholarship/stipends for projects with the Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory (http://www.langcogbrain.net) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.Research in the lab makes use of a range of methodologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrophysiology (intracranial and scalp-recorded EEG), transcranial magnetic and direct current stimulation (TMS& tDCS), and behavioural paradigms, in both healthy and neurologically disordered populations. Current projects involve research into the cognitive and neural mechanisms of heal...
Source: Talking Brains - January 15, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Cowboy Aphasia Camp Helps Campers Talk and Student Clinicians Learn
For seven years—soon to be eight—during the heat of the Oklahoma summer, graduate students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Oklahoma State University have teamed up with people who have aphasia for a week of activities designed to get everyone talking.
Plans for last year’s camp started in the usual way, and then, through a twist of good fortune, two speech-language pathologists from Perth, Australia, crossed 13 time zones to join the event. OSU’s Cowboy Aphasia Camp will never be the same. (Named for the school’s mascot–the OSU Cowboys.)
Historically, funds for our camp are ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Karen Copeland Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Aphasia graduate school Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Daughter Shouldn ’t Let Dad’s Post-Stroke Communication Problems Keep Her Away
Photo credit Damir Bosnjak
Dear Carol: About six months ago my dad had a stroke that’s left him struggling to get out his words. Since he was always so eloquent, this is extra hard on him. I dread visiting him at the nursing home because my visits seem to cause him more frustration than pleasure. I know he wants me to visit, but maybe the fact that we’d always had fun debating ideas makes it harder on him since I bring back memories of better days. I love him and want to spend as much time with him as I can, but how do I do this without causing him grief? – RE
Read Carol's answer to the reader abo...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 16, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
The Perils of CEO Worship - What Happens When the Leader Becomes Demented?
Introduction: the Cult of the CEOAlthough the US and most developed countries are nominally democratic, many of us seem to be again yearning for a man on a white horse, and in the current era, the horse ridden is corporate.On Health Care Renewal, we having been talking about this pheonomenon for a long time. We have written about it in terms ofthe messianic (or visionary, or charistmatic) CEO,CEO disease, and theimperial CEO.These concerns are diffusing into the broader media. For example, from the introduction to a revent Vox article entitled "The Problem with CEO Worship"Society has always had heroes, be those of w...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: accountability anechoic effect CEO disease Donald Trump imperial CEO leadership Source Type: blogs
In Appreciation: Daniel R. Boone
Daniel R. Boone, 1976 ASHA president, died Oct. 27, 2018, at age 90, in Tucson, Arizona.
Boone joined the U.S. Army in 1945, and after several stateside assignments was deployed in 1946 to Korea. After his honorable discharge in 1947, he attended the University of Redlands, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology in June 1951. From 1951 to 1953, he worked as an SLP in the Long Beach VA Hospital with World War II and Korean War veterans who had aphasia. Boone received both a master’s and PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he was an assistant professor. He also held ac...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Richard Zraick Tags: Academia & Research News Slider Speech-Language Pathology Speech Disorders Voice Disorders voice therapy Source Type: blogs
How SLPs Can Foster Bilingual Skills in Students on the Autism Spectrum
In a recent online chat, SLP and bilingual researcher Betty Yu shares strategies for encouraging students and families to communicate in their heritage language.
Participant: Is there ever an age or circumstance where you feel it is too late to start exposing a child to their heritage language?
Betty Yu: It’s never too late to start learning one’s heritage language. Just as it’s never too late to learn any additional language. A common occurrence in the U.S. is people start seriously learning (or re-learning) their heritage languages as adults, often in college, once they’re mature enough to underst...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 10, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Betty Yu Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Apraxia of Speech Autism Spectrum Disorder bilingual Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
What ’ s in My Patient Treatment Bag?
As a kid, I loved long drives with my mom. We’d listen to music, catch up and, my favorite part—I’d go through her purse. I’d read and then throw out old receipts, collect loose coins and throw out old Ziploc bags of Band-Aids or ibuprofen.
You can learn a lot about someone by digging through their bag.
What did I learn about my mother? She’s neurotic and quite literally prepared for anything. OK, fine, I didn’t learn that from her bag. Exploring it just confirmed what I already knew.
When I began working as a PRN (as needed) speech-language pathologist at an inpatient rehab facility, I knew I’d need to get a...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michelle Garmizo Tags: Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Aphasia Apraxia of Speech bilingual service delivery Cognitive Rehabilitation Speech Disorders Swallowing Disorders Traumatic Brain Injury Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Broadway Performances Aimed at Audiences With Autism
The Theatre Development Fund (TDF)—a non-profit devoted to making live performances accessible to everyone—recently announced its upcoming season of shows presented for audience members with autism.
TDF sponsors matinee performances of certain Broadway productions each year through its Autism Friendly Performances Program. The organization works with the theaters and performers to create safe, welcoming environments for audience members with autism or other sensitivity issues. House lights are brightened slightly, loud noises or strobe lighting and other potentially disturbing effects are removed from the shows, and st...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 6, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Events News Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
Getting My Life Back —Thanks to My Team of SLPs
I learned how to talk again. It’s been 17 months since a life-changing event left me without words. I want you to know, from a patient’s perspective, how speech-language pathologists affected my life.
I don’t know if I will ever truly be able to explain what it feels like to find yourself without the power to speak. My rehabilitation team helped me conquer my world once again.
To understand where I am now, you must know who I was. I graduated with honors from The Citadel and The Military College of South Carolina, and worked for the Naval Services, Department of Defense, then the U.S. Air Force and, eventually the pr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 13, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Marty Brennan Tags: Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs
Jun 4, Samuel Fernberger: Today in the History of Psychology (4th June 1887)
Samuel Fernberger was born. An eminent psychophysicist, Fernberger published many important papers on a range of topics within the field e.g. the introspective properties of psychophysical judgments and the effects of physical and mental work. Fernberger also made telling contributions within other areas of psychological research, including the facial expression of emotion, memory-span and aphasia.
An active promoter of psychology throughout his career, Fernberger was the editor of thePsychological Bulletin from 1918 to 1930, editor of theJournal of Experimental Psychology from 1930 to 1946, and cooperating editor ofThe Am...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - June 5, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
