Van Lancker Sidtis to Attend Speech Disorders Symposium, Institute of Neurology, London

Diana Van Lancker Sidtis, professor of speech-language pathology and audiology, has been invited to serve as a faculty member at the First International Symposium on Basal Ganglia Speech Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation at the Institute of Neurology, Queens Square, London.

With her husband, John Sidtis, a research scientist with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Professor Van Lancker Sidtis has been using a novel approach to functional brain imaging and sophisticated acoustic analysis of Parkinsonian speech in subjects with deep brain stimulation. Her work is supported by the NIH and has involved graduate students from NYU and Columbia.