Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab
Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation
Georgetown University Medical Center
Rhonda B. Friedman, Ph.D., director
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Georgetown University Medical Center
Our lab is devoted to the study of how language is processed in the normal brain, how language breaks down in patients with stroke, head injury and dementia, and how the brain recovers language functions -- with or without therapy -- in the months following a stroke or head injury. Our research program may be divided into five related areas of interest:
1. Understanding acquired disorders of language (aphasia) and reading (alexia) subsequent to stroke and head injury
2. Rehabilitation of reading following stroke or head injury
3. The neural basis of reading in healthy readers and alexic patients
4. The progressive decline of reading and language in dementia
5. Semantic memory deficits in dementia.
Where appropriate, we utilize fMRI, ERP, and eye-tracking technology to assess these various aspects of language processing and language deficits.
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