CScD, Medical Speech-Language Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
MS, Clinical Speech-Language Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
BA, Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Professional Certification and Membership:
American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Certificate of Clinical Competence
Professional/Academic Experience
2017-Present, Assistant Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language Sciences, University
of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2016-2017, Speech-language pathologist (PRN), Community Life, Pittsburgh, PA
2013-2017, Speech-language pathologist (full-time and part-time), University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2010-2013, Research speech-language pathologist and clinical fellow, University of
California San Francisco, Depts of Neurology and Neurosurgery, San Francisco, CA
Research/Areas of Interest
Neurogenic communication disorders
Cognitive and neural substrates underlying normal and abnormal speech, language, and
cognitive processes
Assessment and treatment of neurogenic communication disorders
Clinical research
Publications/Creative Works
Book Chapters:
Babiak, M.C, Gorno-Tempini, M.L. & Henry, M.L. (2014). Language disorders, Overview.
In Aminoff, M.J. & Daroff, R.B. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Babiak, M.C, & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2014). Agrammatism. In Aminoff, M.J. & Daroff,
R.B. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences (2nd ed.), San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Wilson, S. M., DeMarco, A. T., Henry, M. L., Gesierich, B., Babiak, M.C., Miller,
B. L., & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2016). Variable disruption of a syntactic processing
network in primary progressive aphasia. Brain : A Journal of Neurology, 1–13.
Binney R.J., Henry M.L., Babiak M.C., Pressman P.S., Narvid J., Santos-Santos M.A.,
Mandelli M.L., Strain P.J., Miller B.L., Rankin K.P., Rosen H.J., & Gorno-Tempini
M.L. (2016). Reading words and other people: a comparison of exception word, familiar
face and affect processing in the left and right temporal variants of primary progressive
aphasia. Cortex, 82, 147-163.
Wilson, S.M., Lam, D., Babiak, M.C., Perry, D.W., Shih, T., Hess, C.P., Berger, M.S.,
& Chang, E.F. (2015). Transient aphasias after left hemisphere resective surgery.
Journal of Neurosurgery. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.3171/2015.4.JNS141962.
Babiak, M.C. (2014). Right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia: A clinical
introduction. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 24 (4),
157-163.
Wilson, S.M., Brandt, T.H., Henry, M.L., Babiak, M.C., Ogar, J.M., Salli, C.,…Gorno-Tempini,
M.L. (2014). Inflectional morphology in primary progressive aphasia: An elicited production
study. Brain and Language, 136, 58-68.
Wilson, S.M., Demarco, A.T., Henry, M.L., Gesierich, B., Babiak, M.C., Mandelli, M.L.,…Gorno-Tempini,
M.L. (2013). What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing?
Neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 (5), 970-985.
Henry, M.L., Meese, M.V., Truong, S., Babiak, M.C., Miller, B.L., Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2013). Treatment for apraxia of speech in nonfluent
variant primary progressive aphasia. Behavioral Neurology, 22 (1-2), 77-88.
Miller, Z.A., Mendelli, M.L., Rankin, K.P., Henry, M.L., Babiak, M.C., Frazier, D., Bettcher, B., Wu, T., Graff-Radford, N.R., Miller, B.L., & Gorno-Tempini,
M.L. (2013). Handedness and language learning disability differentially distribute
in progressive aphasia variants. Brain, 136, 3461-3473.
Caso, F., Gesierich, B., Henry. M.L., Sidhu, M., LaMarre, A., Babiak, M.C., Miller,
B.L., Rabinovici, G.D., Huang, E.J., Magnani, G., Filippi, M., Comi, G., Seeley, W.W.,
& Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2013). Nonfluent/agrammatic PPA with in-vivo cortical amyloidosis
and Pick’s disease pathology. Behavioral Neurology, 22 (1-2), 95-106.
