Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile
Viktorija Smith

@viktorija_slt

Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow, PhD student @Cambridge_Uni, Speech and Language Therapist, Interests: Adult Language Disorders and Neuroimaging

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British Aphasiology Society (@basaphasia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Many of you will have received this email from us this week. If you, the organisation you work for or anyone you know can support please email our chair Dr Rachel Hatchard on [email protected]. We would love our Therapy Symposium to go ahead this year but we need your help!

Many of you will have received this email from us this week. If you, the organisation you work for or anyone you know can support please email our chair <a href="/RachelHatchard/">Dr Rachel Hatchard</a> on chair@bas.org.uk. We would love our Therapy Symposium to go ahead this year but we need your help!
Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So so true and such an overlooked issue in the healthcare system! Continuing to advocate for better mental health support for people with communication difficulties! Thank you for sharing your personal experience (:

Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Getting goosebumps watching the events in Ukraine. As a Lithuanian,we celebrate Independence Restoration day 11/03/1990. Armed aggression followed from the USSR on 13/01/1991. This is still our story today. Ukraine’s Independence 24/08/1991 🇺🇦#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Jerry K Hoepner (@hoepner_jerry) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Look what arrived today! Boxes full of poetry by people with aphasia and TBI. I’m setting up a Venmo account for orders. Stay tuned.

Look what arrived today! Boxes full of poetry by people with aphasia and TBI. I’m setting up a Venmo account for orders. Stay tuned.
Sarah Heatley (@sarahheatley3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I found myself on a gen med ward today discussing the management of a patient with #dysphagia secondary to #FND. A consultant overheard this and suggested that the “best cure” for someone not eating is “hunger”. #SLT 1/2

Dr Abi Roper (@abracabadger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Aphasia SLT or SLP? Download FREE, evidence-based #aphasia resources courtesy of our lovely City Access - Resources for Aphasia website! -English speaking scenario test training -LUNA discourse ax & therapy -Gesture assessment checklist -EVA Park therapy manuals cityaccess.org/carahub#produc…

Aphasia SLT or SLP?
Download FREE, evidence-based #aphasia resources courtesy of our lovely <a href="/_CityAccess/">City Access - Resources for Aphasia</a> website!

-English speaking scenario test training

-<a href="/LUNA_Aphasia/">LUNA</a> discourse ax &amp; therapy

-Gesture assessment checklist

-<a href="/EVAphasia/">EVA Park</a> therapy manuals 

cityaccess.org/carahub#produc…
Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incredible talk from Dr Chang ChangLabUCSF on the neuroscience of speech! ‘Dual’ laryngeal motor cortex, speech neuroprosthesis and more! #SfN22

Incredible talk from Dr Chang <a href="/ChangLabUcsf/">ChangLabUCSF</a> on the neuroscience of speech! ‘Dual’ laryngeal motor cortex, speech neuroprosthesis and more! #SfN22
Stroke Association (@thestrokeassoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#WhenTheWordsAwayWent, a documentary from the Stroke Association is coming. We followed the journeys of Steve, Tom and Julie as they prepare for some of the most challenging milestones in their recovery so far. Streaming from 26th May #LetsTalkAphasia

Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr Gorno-Tempini highlighting the treatments for PPA including speech therapy role and the work by Dr Anna Volkmer in the Bay Area Alzheimer’s disease symposium in San Francisco!

Dr Gorno-Tempini highlighting the treatments for PPA including speech therapy role and the work by <a href="/volkmer_anna/">Dr Anna Volkmer</a> in the Bay Area Alzheimer’s disease symposium in San Francisco!
Sarah Heatley (@sarahheatley3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Calling all SLTs working in #aphasia and #hearingimpairment 🗣️ Thoughts on assessment and treatment of aphasia post stroke with a patient who has a congenital hearing impairment. The patient is deaf and uses lip reading and BSL to communicate #SLT #RCSLT

Laura Gwilliams (@gwilliamsl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ecstatic to see this paper out! made possible through extraordinary teamwork, and special co-first duo with Matt Leonard. an astounding first insight into what Neuropixels can tell us about neural computation in human cortex, in support of language processing

Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 (@ev_fedorenko) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳 🧵1/n

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. <a href="/NatRevNeurosci/">Nature Rev Neurosci</a> rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing <a href="/neuranna/">Anna Ivanova</a> <a href="/tamaregev/">Tamar Regev</a> 🥳
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Brain (@brain1878) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ramanan et al. examine the evolution of clinical phenotypes in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or FTLD, and show that behavioural and cognitive profiles of individuals with the same initial diagnosis can converge or diverge over time. tinyurl.com/4c6ymf2x

Ramanan et al. examine the evolution of clinical phenotypes in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or FTLD, and show that behavioural and cognitive profiles of individuals with the same initial diagnosis can converge or diverge over time. tinyurl.com/4c6ymf2x
Viktorija Smith (@viktorija_slt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Officially matriculated! Excited to embark on my PhD at the University of Cambridge as part of my Wellcome Trust Fellowship for healthcare professionals.