Melissa NewHart



Education:

University of Maryland Baltimore County: Psychology, B.A.
Towson University: Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Deaf Studies, B.S.

Research Interests

Naming treatment in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Language recovery after acute stroke

Recent Publications

• Newhart, M., Ken, L., Kleinman, J.T., Heidler-Gary, J., & Hillis, A.E. (2007).      Neural networks essential for naming and word comprehension. Cognitive         and Behavioral Neurology, 20, 25-30.
• Newhart, M., Davis, C., Kannan, V., Heidler-Gary, J., Cloutman, L., & Hillis,       A.E. (2009). Therapy for naming deficits in two variants of primary           progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 23, 823-834.
• Newhart, M., Trupe, L.A., Gomez, Y., Cloutman, L., Molitoris, J.J., Davis, C.,    Leigh, R., Gottesman, R., Race, D., & Hillis, A.E. (2011). Asyntactic      comprehension, working memory, and acute ischemia in Broca’s area          versus angular gyrus.  Cortex

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