Tatiana Schnur, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Tatiana Schnur received her B.A. in Cognitive Science at the University of Virginia where she was an Echols Scholar and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Fellow. She received her PhD from Harvard University in Cognition, Brain, and Behavior. She completed a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship in neurological rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania and the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute. Dr. Schnur is currently an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Schnur is funded by the NIH National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to study the basis of language recovery after stroke. Her laboratory uses cognitive behavioral testing, neuroimaging, and statistical modeling to understand how multiword production and the neural structures that support it change during recovery by testing people within 72 hours of stroke (acute stage) and again at 1, 6, and 12 months after stroke. Assessing language abilities while collecting neuroanatomical information over time after stroke enables us to gain predictive power about what type of brain damage and deficits of cognitive abilities lead to chronic language loss (aphasia). This knowledge will have important health implications because information about how language ability is impaired and subsequently recovers is essential for managing the consequences of stroke through the development of language rehabilitation strategies.
Dr. Schnur has authored and co-authored papers in peer-reviewed journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain, Neuropsychologia, Neuroimage, Cognition and Cortex, among others. She has been member of international and national grant review panels, including the NIH and NSF. Dr. Schnur is currently a standing member of the NIH NIDCD Communication Disorders Review Committee. Dr. Schnur has taught hundreds of undergraduate students and mentored undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral research fellows.
Education & Training
PhD
Harvard University
Post-doctoral Fellowship in neurological rehabilitation
University of Pennsylvania & Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute