Course Title: Gray Matters: Brain Function and Neural Plasticity
Department: Language and Communicative Disorders

Email: kbrumm@ucsd.edu

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Language and Communicative Disorders, expected 2011
Specialization in the Neural Correlates of Language and Cognition
San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego
Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Workshop, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2007
Educational Course in Advanced Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2007
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Operator Training, UCSD Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2006

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and International Studies, May 2005
Boston College

 

Experience

Psychometrist:
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Clinical Neuropsychology Lab,
2005-2006

Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School,
2004-2005

Research on Attention and Rhythmicity Laboratory:
The Ohio State University,
2004

Brumm, K.; Liu, T.; Perthen, J.; Haist, F.; Love, T. (2007).
“An Investigation of Perfusion in Stroke Survivors.”
Poster Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 14th Annual Meeting, New York.

Brumm, K.; Liu, T.; Perthen, J.; Haist, F.; Love, T. (2007).
“An Investigation of Cerebral Perfusion in Aphasia Using Arterial Spin Labeling.”
Poster Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 13th Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

Dean of the College of Health and Human Services’ Travel Award (SDSU), 2007
NIH Training Grant: Neurocognitive Approaches to Communication Disorders, 2006-8
Psychology Departmental Honors, Boston College, 2005
Dean’s List, Boston College, 2002-5
National Society for Collegiate Scholars, 2001-
Golden Key International Honor Society, 2002-
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Conferences/Talks/Colloquia/Lectures

Brumm, K.; Liu, T.; Perthen, J.; Haist, F.; Love, T.  (2007).  An Investigation of Perfusion in Stroke Survivors.  Poster Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 14th Annual Meeting, New York.

Brumm, K.; Liu, T.; Perthen, J.; Haist, F.; Love, T.  (2007).  An Investigation of Cerebral Perfusion in Aphasia Using Arterial Spin Labeling.  Poster Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 13th Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Brumm, K.; Swinney, D.; Haist, F.; Love, T.  (2008).  An Investigation of the Effects of Syntactic Complexity, Task Demand, and Rate of Speech Input on the Neural Correlates of Sentence Comprehension.  Poster Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 14th Annual Meeting, Melbourne.

Brumm, K.  (2008).  An Investigation of the Relationship Between Cerebral Perfusion and Treatment of Agrammatic Aphasia.  Talk given at the 12th Annual SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders Colloquium.  La Jolla, CA.

Brumm, K.  (2008).  An Investigation of Cerebral Perfusion in Aphasia Using Arterial Spin Labeling.  Talk given at the 1st Annual San Diego State University Student Research Symposium.  San Diego, CA.

Brumm, K. (2007).  Investigating Cerebral Perfusion in Chronic Aphasia Using Arterial Spin Labeling.  Talk given at the 11th Annual SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders Colloquium.  San Diego, CA.

Brumm, K. (2007).  Right Hemisphere Stroke.  Lecture given to graduate-level course on Acquired Neurogenic Language and Cognitive Disorders.