Project Grant R01DC023439
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a component of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Pittsburgh $223,316 on December 15, 2025, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate the neurobiology of language re-learning in post-stroke aphasia treatment. The project examines how sleep-related memory consolidation influences neural and behavioral response to aphasia treatment....
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania $685,048 on February 6, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to characterize how brain networks reorganize after stroke-induced aphasia and how transcranial magnetic stimulation influences that reorganization. The project, titled "Characterizing the Organization of Networks with Neuromodulation to Enhance...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Northwestern University $690,331 on August 25, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to develop personalized brain-computer interfaces for decoding language in people with nonfluent aphasia. The research addresses a critical gap in BCI technology. Nearly all existing speech BCIs decode signals from the frontal lobe, which is typically damaged in nonfluent...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $429,000 Project Grant under the "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. The grant aims to enhance language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia by combining a linguistically-motivated therapy called Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) with excitatory theta burst stimulation (TBS), a...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania $163,626 on December 31, 2025, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to conduct research on brain network-based language system neuromodulation for aphasia. The research applies network control theory to model cortical brain regions and their white matter tract connections as a network of nodes and edges, with the goal of...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., $488,906 on February 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to conduct lesion-deficit mapping research on unresolved problems in aphasia. The project applies lesion-deficit mapping methodology to identify neural correlates of three phenomena in individuals with aphasia: accurate but slowed word processing during...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Duke University $547,650 on July 2, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to develop a predictive model of discourse production in right hemisphere stroke survivors with language use impairments. The research characterizes discourse-level language use in right hemisphere stroke (RHD) survivors using RHDBank, an internationally shared multimedia database, and...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of Pittsburgh $663,904 on March 13, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) adapted for aphasia in improving mental health and functional communication outcomes in stroke survivors with aphasia. The project develops and tests an integrated intervention that pairs ACT—a counseling...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of South Carolina $512,640 on August 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate the cortical organization of syntax and its relationship to grammatical deficits in post-stroke aphasia. The research addresses syntactic deficits—impairments in the ability to combine words into phrases and sentences—which emerge as persistent and severe...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Northeastern University $197,000 on May 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate clinical phenotypes of feedback and feedforward control in adults who stutter. The research tests two hypotheses: that distinct stuttering behaviors are associated with behavioral and neural correlates of feedback and feedforward control (Aim 1), and that distinct...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded $704,116 to Trustees of Boston University on September 1, 2026, for a project grant investigating functional reorganization and recovery of language and domain-general brain networks in aphasia under CFDA 93.173 (Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders). The research evaluates how core linguistic brain networks and the multiple demand (MD) network—a domain-general cognitive system—contribute to language processing and recovery following stroke-induced aphasia. The study recruits 100 individuals with aphasia and 50 healthy age-matched controls to complete language and MD functional MRI localizer tasks, linguistic difficulty manipulation tasks, and naturalistic paradigms. Aim 1 quantifies lesion load in the language-selective network and tests whether the MD network becomes engaged when language processing is challenged by extensive brain damage or increased linguistic demands. Aim 2 examines whether MD network engagement and language-to-MD functional connectivity predict language abilities and whether this relationship is beneficial or maladaptive depending on lesion load. Aim 3 investigates treatment-induced changes in MD and language network activity. Work is performed in Boston, Massachusetts, with a period of performance extending from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031. The project grant provides funds for salaries, equipment, supplies, travel, and other allowable direct and indirect research costs at the recipient institution.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $704.1k | 8/13/26 |