Dr. Kyrana Tsapkini
Research Faculty
Dr. Tsapkini is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She trained in the U.S. and Canada. Her expertise is in the domain of language—especially from an interdisciplinary approach—combining cognitive science, psychology, and neural sciences.
For more information on Dr. Tsapkini, visit her JHMI Information Page
Recent Publications:
- Tsapkini K., Hillis AE. (in press). Spelling therapy in stroke and primary progressive aphasia: Differences and similarities. Behavioural neurology.
- Epstein-Peterson Z., Faria A., Mori S., Hillis A., Tsapkini K. (2012). Relatively normal repetition performance despite severe disruption of the left arcuate fasciculus. Neurocase. (Epub 2012 Jan 9). doi: 10.1080/13554794.2011.633531
- Tsapkini, K., Frangakis, C, and Hillis, AE (2011). The function of the left anterior temporal lobe: evidence from acute stroke and infarct volume. Brain, 134(Pt 10): 3094-105. (Epub 2011 June 17).
- Tsapkini, K., Vindiola, M, and Rapp, B. (2011). Patterns of brain reorganization subsequent to left fusiform damage: fMRI evidence form visual processing of words and pseudowords, faces and objects. Neuroimage, 55:1357-72. (Epub 2010 Dec 17).
- Sepelyak, K., Crinion, J., Molitoris, J., Epstein-Peterson, Z., Bann, M., Davis, C., Newhart, M., Heidler-Gary, J., Tsapkini, K., & Hillis, A. (2011) Patterns of breakdown in spelling in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Cortex, 47 (3) 342-352.
- Tsapkini, K., Vlachou, C.H., & Potagas, C. (2010). Adaptation and validation of standardized aphasia tests in different languages: Lessons from the BDAE-Short Form in Greek. Behavioral Neurology, 22(3-4), 111-119.
- Tsapkini, K., & Rapp, B. (2009). “Orthographic-specific functions of the left fusiform gyrus: Evidence for modality-and category-specificity”. Cortex, 46(2): 185-205.