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PLORAS updates

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

  • 18 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price gave a keynote lecture entitled ‘Connecting fMRI to Lesion Studies’ at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Conference, Seattle.
  • 27 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price presented ‘Towards a Clinical Application of PLORAS’ and Louise Lim presented a summary of the PLORAS focus groups (see here ) at the Neurology Staff Round, Newcastle University Medical School.
  • 15 August 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at Maldon and Dengie Stroke Support Group.
  • 13 September 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at the Stroke Association Lewisham group.
  • 17 September 2012: Members of Speakeasy (an aphasia charity) took part in a focus group to give feedback on the PLORAS website, to help make it as accessible as possible for stroke survivors with aphasia.
  • Rachel Browne held an exhibition stand at the British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference in Manchester (9-11 September 2013) – giving information on the PLORAS project listening to feedback, and advising clinicians how to get involved via the Stroke Research Network. See pictures below Website_Focus_Group_Cropped[1]and a video here .BAS_Biennial_2013[1]

The PLORAS project (Language Group) also featured in the Different Strokes Summer Newsletter in an article where research participant Penny, who has aphasia, explains why she chose to take part in PLORAS. Different Strokes is a charity for younger stroke survivors. You can read it here The newsletter goes out to 12,000+ people and is then also downloadable from the Different Strokes website and they put a link on their Facebook group and Twitter.

Language group website

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 28 June 2013

The Language Group have a new website for their Predicting Language Outcome and Recovery After Stroke (PLORAS) project.  Visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ploras. Please send any questions, comments or feedback to ploras@ucl.ac.uk.

 

Scanning stroke

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

The Big Picture team meets Sarah Scott, a charming young woman who experienced a stroke at the age of 18 while still at school. Now 22, Sarah is slowly recovering but continues to experience problems with both written and spoken language.

Sarah kindly agreed to visit the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, submitting to a brain scan in their massive MRI machine. While there, Sarah also took advantage of the opportunity to quiz the people behind the scanner and the scientists who study the images it produces in the hope they might discover clues to help present and future stroke patients.

Talking Heads

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Rebuilding language after stroke.