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Mission Statement

We are empowering clinicians-researchers to address language disorders across etiologies, cognitive frameworks, and societal contexts.

Dr. Sladjana Lukic

I received my Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) and Cognitive Science Specialization from Northwestern University under the supervision of Dr. Cynthia K. Thompson and completed postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) - Memory and Aging Center. I specialize in both acquired and primary progressive aphasias and I examine the neurocognitive mechanism of language impairments, particularly with respect to lexical access and (morpho)syntax.

In the experience over the course of my career, I have come to notice that the broader community of patients with neurodegenerative syndromes and their families lack easy access to available resources from research and clinical hubs. I aim to bridge this gap by disseminating my expertise and knowledge toward a better understanding of these syndromes, particularly in communities that lack the necessary clinical resources and support.

Please check my full CV.

the Staff & Students

Hadley Borg (Graduate Research Assistant at FSU SCSD, October 2024-present): Master's Thesis - Retrospective study of Aphasia in a clinical setting.

Lauren Talley (Undergraduate Research Assistant at FSU SCSD, August 2025-present):

Former students:

Hemish Naidoo (Undergraduate Research Assistant, Adelphi University Honor's College, Neuroscience 2024-2025): 2024 Summer Research Fellowships ($4000); provided a talk on our Systematic review study at the Innovation Center at the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Workshops Event, 2025.

Nicholas Strada (Undergraduate Research Assistant, Adelphi University, Neuroscience, 2023-2024): Summer Research and Creative Fellowships ($3000, 2023); presented a Poster at Adelphi’s Scholarship and Creative Works Conference 2023.

Zekai Fan (Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley; PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University Bioengineering, 2019-2023): Co-author on published manuscript.

Lukic, S., Fan, Z., García, A. M., Welch, A. E., Ratnasiri, B. M., Wilson, S. M., ... & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2024). Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech. Cortex, 173, 34-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.12.013

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Collaborators

Dr. Cynthia Thompson, Northwestern University

Dr. Nina Dronkers, University of California, Berkley

Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Virginia Sturm, University of California San Francisco

Dr. Edward Huey, Brown University

Dr. Valentina Borghesani, University of Geneva

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