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Sara B. Pillay, PhD

Sara B. Pillay, PhD, ABPP

Assistant Professor

Locations

  • Neurology

Contact Information

Biography

Sara Pillay, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology. She specializes in understanding language reorganization after stroke in patients with aphasia using neuropsychological data, neuroimaging, and electrical stimulation techniques. In addition, she has interest in developing and testing language paradigms for use during intraoperative electrical stimulation mapping and electrocorticography. Her work has been presented at several national and international conferences, and published in peer-reviewed professional journals. She is currently a co-investigator in the Language Imaging Laboratory and a member of the Southeastern Wisconsin Stroke Rehabilitation Center.

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Research Experience

  • Aphasia
  • Brain Mapping
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Phonetics
  • Semantics
  • Stroke
  • Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Clinical Expertise

  • Aphasia
  • Brain Mapping
  • Electrocorticography
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neuropsychological Tests

Methodologies and Techniques

  • Aphasia
  • Brain Mapping
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Phonetics
  • Semantics
  • Speech
  • Speech Perception
  • Stroke

Leadership Positions

  • Co-Director, Intensive Program for Aphasia Therapy
  • Director, Neurology Grand Rounds

MCW Program / Core Facilities

  • Clinical Translational Science
  • Graduate School
  • Neurology/Neuropsychology

Publications