Myrna F. Schwartz PhD

Dr.F. Schwartz is Associate Director at MRRI.Director, Language and Aphasia Lab; Director of Research for the Moss Aphasia Center, Research Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University; Adjunct Professor in Communications Sciences, Temple University.

Dr. Schwartz is Associate Director of Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI) and Research Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She heads the Language and Aphasia lab at MRRI, which conducts basic and applied research on language processing impairments in stroke. Ongoing projects are using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods to investigate the neurocognitive basis of language and related cognitive functions. Dr. Schwartz is also the Director of Research for the Moss Aphasia Center.

His publications are as follows:
Schwartz, M.F. (2014). Theoretical analysis of word production deficits in adult aphasia. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B, Vol. 369, No. 1634, 20120390. PMID: 24324234.
Schwartz, M.F., Middleton, E.L., & Hamilton, R. Word retrieval impairment in adult aphasia. To appear in: R.H. Bahr & E.R. Silliman (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Communication Disorders, Routledge, New York.Zhang, Y., Kimberg, D.Y., Coslett, H.B., Schwartz, M.F., & Wang, Z. (2014). Lesion-symptom mapping using support vector regression. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22590. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25044213.