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field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Andrea & Diego on the Language Neuroscience Podcast!</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pg-slider-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">New ALBA postdocs, Andrea Gajardo-Vidal & Diego Lorca-Puls, discussed their paper, "Damage to Broca鈥檚 area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke" in episode 5 of The Language Neuroscience Podcast hosted by Stephen M. Wilson.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pg-slider-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3vlEgXfmo9nUHoe2AIYGas?si=A1RVwCASTHOK3aAc8zNdjw">Check it out on Spotify!</a></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main-wrapper"> <div id="main" class="clearfix"> <div id="content" class="column"> <div class="inside"> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="tabs"></div> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-block-56" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <hr display:="" block="" height:="" border:="" border-top:="" solid="" margin:="" padding:="" /> <p>The ALBA Language Neurobiology laboratory in the UCSF Memory and Aging Center is directed by Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini. We study how language is organized into brain networks across the lifespan. Our group researches how language skills and brain regions are impacted by neurological conditions and how they reorganize in response. Our multidisciplinary team correlates behavioral research with multimodal neuroimaging techniques to understand the neural underpinning of higher cognitive functions such as speech, language and memory. In particular, our lab researches two syndromes: Primary Progressive Aphasia and Dyslexia.</p> <p>聽</p> <p>Primary Progressive Aphasia is a neurodegenerative syndrome in which communication abilities become progressively impaired. We study PPA as a model disease to understand the neurobiology of language. We aim to identify sensitive linguistic, cognitive, motor or neuroimaging biomarkers of this syndrome. We use multimodal imaging to predict longitudinal disease progression in the brain and track the progression of symptoms.</p> <p>聽</p> <p>Dr. Gorno Tempini is also co-director of the <a href="https://dyslexia.ucsf.edu/">UCSF Dyslexia Center</a>. 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