Tatiana Schnur  
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Language and Neuroanatomical Change during Recovery from Stroke

After suffering a stroke, patients commonly experience difficulties in speech, termed aphasia, resulting from lesions in specific parts of the brain governing language.  Tatiana Schnur will employ new imaging technologies – in collaboration with the Department of Neurology  at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston – to examine the brains of aphasic speakers immediately after stroke and again one year later.  She will administer a variety of language tests with these patients and expects not only to improve understanding of language recovery in stroke patients, but to identify the neuroanatomical basis for speech production and language processing and comprehension.