Award
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 1R01DC023208-01
Applications of Lesion-Deficit Mapping to Unresolved Problems in Aphasia
Recipient
Medical College of Wisconsin
Award Amount
$488,906.00
Ceiling
$488,906.00
Awarded
January 27, 2026
Identifier
1R01DC023208-01
This award funds research to develop detailed lesion-deficit mapping models to understand and predict language deficits in aphasia patients, using advanced neuroimaging and AI techniques.
Description
A detailed model of how focal damage to the brain affects long-term language abilities would be of enormous value to clinicians trying to minimize language deficits from brain surgery or predict long-term recovery from strokes. The project addresses four problems related to aphasia using lesion-deficit mapping, reaction time measurements, and AI models (GPT-4) to analyze brain damage and language processing in stroke patients.