Current Projects

ReadMap

Reading is very difficult for many people after their stroke. This problem is called alexia. In this study, we will look at how reading changes in healthy aging and after stroke. Understanding specific types of reading problems and how people get better over time is the first step toward finding new ways to treat alexia. 

ReadMap is currently enrolling survivors and left hemisphere stroke as well as older adults with no history of stroke.

Participation requires just a few sessions of language testing and an MRI scan.

ReadMap is funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD grant R01DC020446).

Neuroimaging Methods Development

Our lab is interested in developing new tools to help us understand how the brain works. We have previously developed tools for meta-analysis of neuroimaging data (Activation Likelihood Estimation, Turkeltaub et al., 2002, 2012), and for multivariate lesion-symptom mapping (DeMarco and Turkeltaub, 2018). We recently developed a method using resting functional MRI data to map functionally anomalous tissue in individuals with stroke (DeMarco and Turkeltaub, 2018).