Cross-System Mechanisms of Functioning for Recovery and Rehabilitation
DeconeuroTM laboratory is a place where researchers, trainees, and end users work together. We aim to understand human feeding and swallowing functions and their relationship to communication patterns in recovery and rehabilitation, especially in persons with neurological diseases. The word Déconeuro comes from syllables in the words “déglutition/deglutition” (swallowing), “communication” and “neurologique/-ical”.
Most of our research projects involve a range of collaborators and often many years of preliminary inquiry. Current foci include understanding relationships between communication and swallowing and life participation, elucidating recovery patterns for swallowing and communication disorders in stroke survivors, and developing cross-system therapies for persons with neurodegenerative diseases.
For inquiries about DeconeuroTM laboratory activities, research initiatives, and training opportunities, please contact Dr. Heather Flowers.
