Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Neurology

Contact Information

Education

PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Neurology and Neurosciences, Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2012
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinstrumentation and Signal Processing, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2008
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinstrumentation, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2006

Biography

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Honors and Awards

2003–2006 , Recipient of Albert Dorman Honor’s College Scholarship
2005, Member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
2013–Present, American Heart Association
2014, Society of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
2014, American Academy of Neurology
2017–Present, Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery (CPSR)
2018, World Stroke Organization
2018–Present, Society of Neurobiology of Language

Research Interests

I am a biomedical engineer and a cognitive neuroscientist by training. My work focuses on optimizing neurorehabilitation approaches for the treatment of cognitive disorders in acquired and neurodegenerative diseases. My postdoctoral work has primarily been focused on examining the efficacy and the neurophysiological bases of noninvasive brain stimulation treatments in post-stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Over the past 10 years, I have used a variety of methodologies, including transcranial direct current and magnetic stimulation (tDCS, high-definition tDCS, TMS), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and anatomical (voxel-based morphometry, voxel-based lesion symptom mapping) and functional MR imaging (fMRI), combined with neuropsychological testing and univariate and multivariate (partial least squares, principal component analysis) statistical approaches.

Genetic and Neurophysiological Biomarkers of Neuroplasticity Inform Post-Stroke Language Recovery.

(Dresang HC, Harvey DY, Xie SX, Shah-Basak PP, DeLoretta L, Wurzman R, Parchure SY, Sacchetti D, Faseyitan O, Lohoff FW, Hamilton RH.) Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2022 Jun;36(6):371-380 PMID: 35428413 04/17/2022
Electrophysiological abnormalities as indicators of early-stage pathology in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA): A case study in semantic variant PPA.

(Kielar A, Shah-Basak PP, Patterson DK, Jokel R, Meltzer JA.) Neurocase. 2022 02;28(1):110-122 PMID: 35230912 03/02/2022
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene Polymorphism Predicts Response to Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation in Chronic Stroke Patients.

(Parchure S, Harvey DY, Shah-Basak PP, DeLoretta L, Wurzman R, Sacchetti D, Faseyitan O, Lohoff FW, Hamilton RH.) Neuromodulation. 2021 Jul 12 PMID: 34252254 PMCID: PMC8913155 07/13/2021
Variability in cTBS Aftereffects Attributed to the Interaction of Stimulus Intensity With BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism.

(Harvey DY, DeLoretta L, Shah-Basak PP, Wurzman R, Sacchetti D, Ahmed A, Thiam A, Lohoff FW, Faseyitan O, Hamilton RH.) Front Hum Neurosci. 2021;15:585533 PMID: 34220466 PMCID: PMC8249815 07/06/2021
High definition transcranial direct current stimulation modulates abnormal neurophysiological activity in post-stroke aphasia.

(Shah-Basak PP, Sivaratnam G, Teti S, Francois-Nienaber A, Yossofzai M, Armstrong S, Nayar S, Jokel R, Meltzer J.) Sci Rep. 2020 11 12;10(1):19625 PMID: 33184382 PMCID: PMC7665190 11/14/2020
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Polymorphism Influences Response to Single-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Rest.

(Shah-Basak P, Harvey DY, Parchure S, Faseyitan O, Sacchetti D, Ahmed A, Thiam A, Lohoff FW, Hamilton RH.) Neuromodulation. 2020 Oct 09 PMID: 33090650 PMCID: PMC8032803 10/23/2020
Slowing is slowing: Delayed neural responses to words are linked to abnormally slow resting state activity in primary progressive aphasia.

(Kielar A, Shah-Basak PP, Deschamps T, Jokel R, Meltzer JA.) Neuropsychologia. 2019 06;129:331-347 PMID: 31029594 04/29/2019
Continuous theta burst stimulation over right pars triangularis facilitates naming abilities in chronic post-stroke aphasia by enhancing phonological access.

(Harvey DY, Mass JA, Shah-Basak PP, Wurzman R, Faseyitan O, Sacchetti DL, DeLoretta L, Hamilton RH.) Brain Lang. 2019 05;192:25-34 PMID: 30870740 PMCID: PMC6503859 03/15/2019
Altered beta-band functional connectivity may be related to 'performance slowing' in good outcome aneurysmal subarachnoid patients.

(Shah-Basak PP, Dunkley BT, Ye AX, Wong S, da Costa L, Pang EW.) Neurosci Lett. 2019 04 23;699:64-70 PMID: 30711525 02/04/2019
Spontaneous oscillatory markers of cognitive status in two forms of dementia.

(Shah-Basak PP, Kielar A, Deschamps T, Verhoeff NP, Jokel R, Meltzer J.) Hum Brain Mapp. 2019 04 01;40(5):1594-1607 PMID: 30421472 PMCID: PMC6865664 11/14/2018
Breath-Hold Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent MRI: A Tool for the Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reserve in Children with Moyamoya Disease.

(Dlamini N, Shah-Basak P, Leung J, Kirkham F, Shroff M, Kassner A, Robertson A, Dirks P, Westmacott R, deVeber G, Logan W.) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2018 09;39(9):1717-1723 PMID: 30139753 PMCID: PMC7655282 08/25/2018
Visual Working Memory Encoding and Recognition in Good Outcome Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Patients.

(da Costa L, Shah-Basak PP, Dunkley BT, Robertson AD, Pang EW.) Front Neurol. 2018;9:494 PMID: 29997567 PMCID: PMC6028596 07/13/2018

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