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David Howard is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom with research primarily situated at the intersection of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Their work spans key subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. This multidisciplinary focus intersects with main topics including Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility, and Action Observation and Synchronization.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues, notably:

  • Aphasiology
  • Stroke
  • International Journal of Stroke
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Health and Social Care Delivery Research

Significant recent publications illustrating their research contributions include:

  • "Predictors of Poststroke Aphasia Recovery," 2021, Stroke
  • "Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations," 2024, Aphasiology
  • "Precision rehabilitation for aphasia by patient age, sex, aphasia severity, and time since stroke? A prespecified, systematic review-based, individual participant data, network, subgroup meta-analysis," 2022, International Journal of Stroke
  • "Reading comprehension difficulties in people with aphasia: investigating personal perception of reading ability, practice, and difficulties," 2020, Aphasiology
  • "Efficacy of spoken word comprehension therapy in patients with chronic aphasia: a cross-over randomised controlled trial with structural imaging," 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Alexander Leff
  • Cathy J. Price
  • Myzoon Ali
  • Kathryn VandenBerg
  • Linda Williams

David Howard's body of work encompasses topics related to stroke rehabilitation and language recovery, often focusing on aphasia and communication challenges post-stroke. Their research also addresses methodologies for cross-linguistic assessment, which informs rehabilitation strategies adapted for diverse patient populations.

Best Publications

  • The Pyramids and Palm Trees Test

    D Howard;KE Patterson

  • The cortical localization of the lexicons. Positron emission tomography evidence.

    D Howard;K Patterson;R Wise;WD Brown;WD Brown

  • The impact of low health literacy on the medical costs of Medicare managed care enrollees

    David H. Howard;Julie Gazmararian;Ruth M. Parker

  • The Comprehensive Aphasia Test

    K Swinburn;G Porter;D Howard

  • Hearing and saying. The functional neuro-anatomy of auditory word processing.

    C. J. Price;R. J. S. Wise;E. A. Warburton;C. J. Moore

  • Brain activity during reading: The effects of exposure duration and task

    C. J. Price;R. J. S. Wise;J. D. G. Watson;K. Patterson

  • Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs

    David H. Howard;Peter B. Bach;Ernst R. Berndt;Rena M. Conti

  • Age of acquisition and imageability ratings for a large set of words, including verbs and function words.

    Helen Bird;Susan Franklin;David Howard

  • The impact of obesity on rising medical spending.

    Kenneth E. Thorpe;Curtis S. Florence;David H. Howard;Peter Joski

  • Cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming: experimental and computational studies

    David Howard;Lyndsey Nickels;Max Coltheart;Jennifer Cole-Virtue

  • Impact of Health Literacy on Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health in an Elderly Population

    David H Howard;Tetine Sentell;Julie A Gazmararian

  • Aphasic naming: What matters?

    Lyndsey Nickels;David Howard

  • Temporal lobe regions engaged during normal speech comprehension

    Jennifer T Crinion;Matthew A Lambon-Ralph;Elizabeth A Warburton;David Howard

  • Why is a verb like an inanimate object? Grammatical category and semantic category deficits

    Helen Bird;David Howard;Sue Franklin

  • A Cognitive Neuropsychological Approach to Assessment and Intervention in Aphasia: A clinician's guide

    Anne Whitworth;Janet Webster;David Howard

  • Regional response differences within the human auditory cortex when listening to words.

    Cathy Price;Richard Wise;Richard Wise;Stuart Ramsay;Karl Friston

  • On the Origin of Semantic Errors in Naming: Evidence from the Case of a Global Aphasic

    David Howard;Virginia Orchard-Lisle

  • Treatment of word retrieval deficits in aphasia: A comparison of two therapy methods

    D Howard;KE Patterson;S Franklin;Orchard-Lisle

  • The facilitation of picture naming in aphasia

    D Howard;K Patterson;S Franklin;Orchard-Lisle

  • Aphasia Therapy: Historical and Contemporary Issues

    David Howard;Frances M. Hatfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyndsey Nickels
Lyndsey Nickels Macquarie University
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph University of Cambridge
Linda Worrall
Linda Worrall University of Queensland
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London
Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University
Katerina Hilari
Katerina Hilari City, University of London
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Barbara Dodd
Barbara Dodd University of Queensland

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