Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD
Laboratory Director
Neuroimaging developments in particular have had a significant impact on our ability to identify and understand changes in cognition in the face of neurological illness and injury, as well as understand how cognitive rehabilitation is working.
Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, directs the Cognitive Functioning and Cognitive Rehabilitation Laboratory, part of the Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research where she is also director at Kessler Foundation. The Lab team identifies effective means of treating learning and memory deficits by developing and testing new treatment protocols through randomized clinical trials. Researchers here employ various neuroimaging techniques using task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to help understand how cognitive rehabilitation works at the level of the brain.
In addition, the team successfully established a non-invasive, non-pharmacological, cost-effective approach to improving cognitive function called Kessler Foundation modified Story Memory Technique (KF-mSMT®) protocol, now used by many clinicians in the U.S. Research continues using this technique to further investigate how new information is strengthened in the memory of individuals with traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis and to develop additional treatment protocols.
National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
National Institutes of Health
New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Research
New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
Cognitive Functioning and Cognitive Rehabilitation Lab Team
Cognitive Functioning and Cognitive Rehabilitation Lab Team
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Hearst Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Neuropsychology of Eye Movements Laboratory
Cognitive Functioning and Cognitive Rehabilitation Laboratory
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Senior Research Coordinator
Center for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Cognitive Functioning and Cognitive Rehabilitation Laboratory
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