2019

December 20, 2019

Notice of Award received for a new R01 grant from NIDCD. Congrats to Dr. Chang and Co-Is Drs. Hampton Wray (U of Pitt), Yanni Liu (UM Psychiatry), Valeria Caruso (UM CHGD/Psych), and Emily Garnett (UM Psychiatry).

November 1, 2019

Dr. Chang was interviewed for a segment on a recent BBC CrowdScience episode “Can my stutter be cured?”. Check out the episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz1tv 

October 11-13, 2019 

Dr. Soo-Eun Chang attended the First Stuttering Ibero-American Congress in Cusco, Peru. The Congress featured renowned clinicians and researchers from around the world, gathered to learn about the latest research and intervention techniques in stuttering. Dr. Chang delivered a presentation on the neurological basis of stuttering in children (persistent versus recovery).

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September 27, 2019 

Our SNL lab members attended the UM fMRI Lab Fall Symposium. Talks this year centered around fMRI methods, and in particular, how fMRI data can (or cannot) predict behavior and response to treatment. One of the speakers included Saige Rutherford, our colleague and a Research Area Specialist, who presented on predictive modeling in brain behavior relationships. 

September 11, 2019

The Speech Neurophysiology lab members from UM and MSU attended the Great Lakes Stuttering Consortium Second Annual Research Symposium at Michigan State University. Researchers from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, University of Pittsburgh, Western Michigan University, University of Toledo, Kent State University, and University of Wisconsin gathered to hear and present talks in the latest basic and clinical research. 

August 20-22, 2019 

Drs. Soo-Eun Chang and Simone Koenraads attended and presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference in Helsinki, Finland. They presented two posters, with topics ranging from gray and white matter volume differences in childhood stuttering to spatial linkages between stuttering-related gene expression and persistent stuttering specific brain structure and functional anomalies. 

July 22, 2019

Abhinaya Krishnaraj has joined the lab as the lab manager on the U of M campus. Abhi replaces Denise London, who will be leaving this summer to purse her master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.  Congratulations to them both!

June 15, 2019

The SNL Summer newsletter is out!

June 12, 2019

Dr. Emily Garnett and UM undergraduate Jaya Thyagarajan presented posters at the Albert J. Silverman Research Conference in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Garnett's poster was about her ongoing clinical trial that is investigating the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on speech fluency and brain activity. Jaya's poster looked at network connectivity using graph theory metrics in speech motor regions in adults who stutter.  

May 17, 2019

Dr. Soo-Eun Chang received notice of her promotion to Associate professor with tenure at the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Psychiatry.

May 20-21, 2019

Dr. Soo-Eun Chang attended the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in San Franscisco and presented a panel discussion with Drs. Gerald Maguire and Michele Nelson, two psychiatrists working with children who stutter.

April 1-4, 2019

Dr. Emily Garnett attended the 4-day intensive Boston FreeSurfer MRI traning corse.

March 21-23, 2019

UM and MSU members of the Speech Neurophysiology Lab attended the Michigan Speech-Language and Hearing Association conference in East Lansing and presented a total of 6 posters and two talks on varying topics. 

February 1, 2019

The SNL Winter newsletter is out!