Hasini Weerathunge
@hasinirw
Michigan Pioneer Fellow, Postdoc @ChangStutterLab @umichmedicine #Neuroscientist #MotorSpeechDisorders @BUCollegeofENG @SteppLab @ENTC_UoM 🇱🇰
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Super excited by this randomized double-blinded preregistered clinical trial: A network defined by treatment response from invasive stim (DBS) → used to noninvasively modulate the brain (tDCS). This improved motor functions in PD. Thread below 👇 Center For Brain Circuit Therapeutics Michael Fox
Super excited to learn that my poster abstract from Stuttering Research Lab for Society of Neurobiology of Language Annual meeting has been accepted! Super grateful to be awarded a Travel Award as well. 🙏#SNL2024 October 24-26, Brisbane, Australia neurolang.org/2024/award-win…
Excited for this line-up from Stuttering Research Lab for the Society of Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting 2024 in Brisbane! SNL Annual Meeting #SNL2024 It was great to see stuttering mentioned right at the offset at the first keynote by Dr. Angela Morgan!
Dear friends – today’s the day: Andy’s leaving twitter! It was so much fun to be here and I will miss part of it. However, this platform also changed so much that it is sometimes hard to recognize any longer. Lot’s of momentum at bluesky – moving over there. A last thread 🧵
So, if you are like me, head over there and see that many of the typical early-adopters like Russ Poldrack or Micah G. Allen are already active and thriving. There are also starter-packs of follows to get you off the ground. The interface is much better, lightweight and clear.
Nov 16: You're invited to a free #stuttering film screening at the The Michigan & State Theaters! Join us at 3:30pm at the State Theatre for a special viewing of The King's Speech, including a panel breaking down stuttering stereotypes in media. See you there!🍿 Details: michmed.org/MyWVx
Meet the 2024 cohort of Michigan Pioneer Fellows! These postdoctoral researchers are pursuing multidisciplinary projects spanning 10 departments across U-M Medical School Research, U-M College of LSA and UMLifeSciences, while building the skills to launch ground-breaking independent careers.
New PhD opportunities for Oct 2025! 1. Project with alice milne (she/her) on auditory processing and ADHD. 2. Project with Sana Hannan on sleep and cognitive recovery in age-related hearing loss. Fully-funded studentships are available, deadline 16th Jan! lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/stu…
For more than a century, scientists thought that Broca's area coordinates the muscle movements required to speak. But new UC San Francisco research from @ChangLabUCSF identifies the key role that the middle precentral gyrus (mPrCG) plays in this process. Jessie R. Liu l8r.it/ua64