Neurosurgery

The goal of this fellowship is to provide excellent multidisciplinary training in psycholinguistics, functional neuroanatomy, and intracranial neurophysiology by developing mechanistic understanding of expressive language function in the multiple regions in the medial frontal wall, specifically the supplementary motor area (SMA) and preSMA. Dysfunction in these regions has been tied to a variety of motor and language deficits including issues with motor initiation and sequencing, articulation, and sentence planning as well as speech disorders including developmental stuttering.