Seminar – Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD – “From Brain Oscillations to Intervention: Understanding and Modulating Verbal Short-term Memory”

Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin Profile About the Speaker: Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a biomedical engineer and a cognitive neuroscientist by training. Her work focuses on optimizing neurorehabilitation approaches for the treatment of cognitive disorders in acquired and neurodegenerative diseases. Her postdoctoral work has primarily been focused on examining the efficacy and the neurophysiological bases of noninvasive brain stimulation treatments in post-stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Over the past 10 years, she has used a variety of methodologies, including transcranial direct current and magnetic stimulation (tDCS, high-definition tDCS, TMS), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and anatomical (voxel-based morphometry, voxel-based lesion symptom mapping) and functional MR imaging (fMRI), combined with neuropsychological testing and univariate and multivariate (partial least squares, principal component analysis) statistical approaches. [uw-reusable-content id=’27295′]