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Staff Spotlight: Dr. Shanley Treleaven
March 26, 2024
Get to know our team!
We interviewed Dr. Shanley Treleaven, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Speech Neurophysiology Lab, to learn more about her work and interests. Shanley conducts research for the lab's EEG studies and is also a speech-language pathologist. She loves how our work helps the stuttering community. When she's not busy with work, Shanley enjoys reading fiction and spoiling her rescue dogs.
Keep reading to learn more about Shanley and her work with the lab.
Stuttering and anxiety—what’s the connection?
March 12, 2024
Dr. Yanni Liu’s new paper, Brain response to errors in children who stutter was recently published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders. In this paper, our researchers sought to better understand the connection between stuttering and anxiety. Long-established studies show that about half of all adults who stutter report social anxiety disorders that significantly impact their quality of life. But do children who stutter also experience these higher levels of anxiety? Does their anxiety grow with age? This study is the first one of its kind, investigating signs of anxiety within the brains of preschool-aged and school-aged children who stutter.
We sat down with Dr. Liu to learn more about this research and what it can teach us about the role anxiety plays in developmental stuttering.
Unsolved Mysteries: Stuttering Edition
March 7, 2024
Dr. Soo-Eun Chang penned an article published in PLOS Biology’s latest edition of Unsolved Mystery. Partnering with lead-author Dr. Nicole Neef at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology in Göttingen, Germany, their article, Knowns and unknowns about the neurobiology of stuttering, explores everything stuttering researchers currently know and don’t know about stuttering.
To help break down the complex neurobiology, we wrote a simple summary of both the biggest research findings—and the biggest mysteries—researchers are still trying to solve!
Keep reading to learn more about these stuttering mysteries.
Neuroscience Craft and Story Time at Ann Arbor District Library and Saline District Library
February 22, 2024
Members of our lab and the Ann Arbor Stuttering Awareness and Research Club (A2STAR) visited local libraries this February to lead children through fun and educational neuroscience activities to teach them how different parts of our brains and bodies help us speak.
Staff Spotlight: Dr. Hasini Weerathunge
January 22, 2024
Get to know our team!
We interviewed Dr. Hasini Weerathunge, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Speech Neurophysiology Lab, to learn more about her work and interests. Hasini conducts research for the lab while learning new research techniques to hone her skills. When she's not busy with work, Hasini enjoys hot yoga and hot mugs of butterbeer as she's a life-long fan of the Harry Potter series. She also loves the great outdoors and travel.
Keep reading to learn more about Hasini and her work with the lab.
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