ALBA Language Neurobiology laboratory

We are beyond excited to share this news with you🎉🎉 We are very grateful to the State of California and Governor @GavinNewsom for funding our research program: dyslexia.ucsf.edu/multitudes. So many exciting things are on the way. ucsf.edu/news/2022/01/4… @UCSFmac

Direct intracranial recordings in the human angular gyrus during arithmetic processing link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… New paper! with Fengyixuan Chen, @NikiPersia, Claire Perry and @josef_parvizi

Tee et al. show that the visuospatial cognitive phenotypes of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) are associated with anatomical changes over the right hemisphere, albeit the structural changes of PPA are most evident over the left hemisphere. bit.ly/3PRymTr @UofCalifornia

Excited to share our latest paper in @Brain1878! We discuss why some logopenic PPA pts show additional non-linguistic cognitive deficits and how to model their varying clinical presentations w/ multidimensional frameworks. Collab bw @mrccbu @CambridgeFTD @Muireann_Irish @UCSFmac

Probabilistic Decision-Making in Children With Dyslexia. Decision-making processes differentiate developmental dyslexia, associate with the caudate, and may impact learning mechanisms. bit.ly/3Ba2Bkl Christa Watson Pereira @DataCooker @Zachary94010852 @AlbaLanguage

Younes et al. show that right-predominant anterior temporal lobe degeneration is characterized by a progressive decline in semantic knowledge for socioemotionally relevant concepts, and propose that it should be named ‘semantic behavioural variant FTD’. bit.ly/3bvnmMy

Ever wondered what Noam Chomsky thinks about the neuroscience of language? Well, I asked him! Honored to host this living legend, founder of the field of generative linguistics, on the Language Neuroscience Podcast, Episode 21. Please RT to share widely. langneurosci.org/podcast/ep21

Right temporal lobe and socioemotional semantics: semantic behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. sbvFTD characterized by ↓ socioemotionally relevant concepts. bit.ly/3Ogj9Ke @kyan_younes @brainsturming @Rankin_Lab @AlbaLanguage #NIAfundedADRC @Brain1878

Right temporal lobe and socioemotional semantics academic.oup.com/brain/advance-… Massive collaboration between @AlbaLanguage @vborghesani @maxmontembeault @brainsturming @grinberg_t @RabLab_UCSF @brucemillerucsf @UCSFmac et al.

Right temporal lobe and socioemotional semantics: semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia | Brain | Oxford Academic Take a look at this excellent piece made by MAC UCSF researchers! academic.oup.com/brain/advance-…

📢Paper alert 📢 Check out our paper ‘Right temporal lobe and socioemotional semantics: semantic behavioral variant FTD’ We outline new diagnostic criteria that will facilitate early identification of patients with early, focal right ATL degeneration. with @kyan_younes @UCSFmac

Hot off the press: correct responses are all alike, every error is...a door into the lexico-semantic system! Check out what primary progressive aphasia patients taught us doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.… Work with colleagues at @UCSFmac / @AlbaLanguage / @ucsf_snl_bil

New paper alert!📣Neurodegeneration of the anterior temporal lobes teaches us a great deal about cognition and behavior. Kudos to Kyan & the incredible @AlbaLanguage & @UCSFmac team behind this comprehensive clinical dive into the right side variant

Dysgraphia Phenotypes in Native Chinese Speakers With Primary Progressive Aphasia. Diagnostic utility of dysgraphia phenotypes in classifying PPA variants. bit.ly/3QrQFzw @LeadTee @GvnBattistella @DataCooker @brucemillerucsf @AlbaLanguage

Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Non-fluent/agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia. Capture nfvPPA markers & discriminate tauopathies. bit.ly/3aSdDPW @AdolfoMGarcia @arianewelch @AlbaLanguage @utaphasialabs @brucemillerucsf

Language beyond aphasia: Our new ebook reports verbal deficits in AD, MCI, FTLD, and PD. Check it out here: bit.ly/3uULe3U. With @AgustinMIbanez, @brucemillerucsf, and @marilugorno. @UdeSA @CNCUdeSA @UsachFAHU @GBHI_Fellows @atlanticfellows @Redenlab

From motor speech to neuropathology. Our study on autopsy-confirmed nfvPPA patients is out in @GreenJournal. With @arianewelch, @MJTorresPrioris, @marilugorno, and the @AlbaLanguage team. bit.ly/3NRKu5L @UdeSA @CNCUdeSA @UsachFAHU @GBHI_Fellows @atlanticfellows @Redenlab

Automated detection of speech timing in autopsy-confirmed #ftd (Non-fluent/agrammatic Primary Progressive #aphasia) lead by @AdolfoMGarcia, @arianewelch & Gorno-Tempini @AlbaLanguage of @UCSFMAC. Published in @GreenJournal. @AFTDHope @theAFTDA n.neurology.org/content/early/…

Meet Dr. Jessica de Leon of @UCSFmac, recipient of an @AlzAssociation grant. Learn more about her project, to create cognitive testing to better evaluate Tagalog speakers who are experiencing cognitive difficulties, in our latest #blog: bit.ly/3KZIy9v. #ENDALZ

@CNCUdeSA @AdolfoMGarcia Congratulations Adolfo!🎉

Con orgullo les contamos que nuestro Director, @AdolfoMGarcia , se ubica en el top 5 de psicología y en el top 8 de neurociencias dentro de los rankings de investigadores a nivel nacional. ¡Felicitaciones, Adolfo! bit.ly/3LTWHWZ | bit.ly/3shRD6Z

WE ARE HIRING! |#Neuroimaging Data Assistant| to help the @AlbaLanguage at @UCSF to collect, preprocess and analise structural and #fMRI data on the neurobiology of language. Reach out if you have any questions and apply here: #jobDetails=3269495_5861" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…