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Diego Luciano Lorca Puls

Associate Professor

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Neural basis of language and aphasia; Brain-behavior relationships in adults with acquired brain damage; Structural and functional neuroplasticity; Predictors of language/cognitive outcome, recovery and treatment response.

Educación

  •  Speech-language pathologist, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2007
  •  Neuropsychology, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2008
  •  Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Reino Unido, 2013
  •  Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Reino Unido, 2019

Experiencia Académica

  •   Adjunct Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Facultad de Medicina

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2012

  •   Research Assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Faculty of Brain Sciences

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2017 - 2018

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Faculty of Brain Sciences

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2019 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO

    School of Medicine

    San Francisco, Estados Unidos

    2021 - 2022

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Facultad de Medicina

    Concepción, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Clinical Professor Part Time

    Universidad de Concepción

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2012

  •   Research Assistant Full Time

    University College London

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2017 - 2018

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    University College London

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2019 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

    University of California San Francisco

    San Francisco, Estados Unidos

    2021 - 2022

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    Universidad de Concepción

    Concepción, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

Premios y Distinciones

  •   International Master’s Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2010

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

  •   International PhD Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2013

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue a PhD in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

  •   International Postdoctoral Fellowship (Becas Chile)

    ANID

    Chile, 2019

    Fellowship awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to pursue further training in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Francisco

  •   Subvención a la Instalación en la Academia

    ANID

    Chile, 2022

    Grant awarded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to carry out the research project entitled “Development and implementation of a research protocol on brain-behavior relationships focused on stroke and neurodegenerative diseases”


 

Article (16)

Enhanced left superior parietal activation during successful speech production in patients with left dorsal striatal damage and error-prone neurotypical participants

PLORAS Team

Article ISI
CEREBRAL CORTEX  (2023)

Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia

Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Licata, Abigail; Scheffler, Aaron; Battistella, Giovanni; Grasso, Stephanie M.; La Joie, Renaud; Mundada, Nidhi S.; Europa, Eduardo; de Leon, Jessica; et al.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Human Brain Mapping  (2023)

Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

Welch, A.E.; Mandelli, M.L.; Henry, M.L.; Torres-Prioris, M.J.; Ratnasiri, B.M.; Seeley, W.; Vogel, A.P.

Article ISI
NEUROLOGY  (2022)

Better long-term speech outcomes in stroke survivors who received early clinical speech and language therapy: What's driving recovery?

Bruce, R.M.; Lim, L.; Woodgate, H.; Ledingham, K.

Article ISI
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION  (2022)

A functional dissociation of the left frontal regions that contribute to single word production tasks

Ekert, J.O.

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE  (2021)

Brain regions that support accurate speech production after damage to Broca's area

PLORAS Team

Article ISI
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS  (2021)

Damage to Broca's area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke

PLORAS Team; Warner, H.; Pshdary, B.

Article ISI
BRAIN  (2021)

Dissociating the functions of three left posterior superior temporal regions that contribute to speech perception and production



Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE  (2021)

Lesions that do or do not impair digit span: a study of 816 stroke survivors

PLORAS Team

Article ISI
BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS  (2021)

Reply: Broca’s area: why was neurosurgery neglected for so long when seeking to re-establish the scientific truth? and Where is the speech production area? Evidence from direct cortical electrical stimulation mapping



Article ISI
BRAIN  (2021)

Right cerebral motor areas that support accurate speech production following damage to cerebellar speech areas

PLORAS Team

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL  (2021)

Generalizing post-stroke prognoses from research data to clinical data

Loughnan R.; Espejo-Videla, V.; Gillebert C.R.; Mantini D.

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL  (2019)

How distributed processing produces false negatives in voxel-based lesion deficit analyses

Green, DW

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA  (2018)

How right hemisphere damage after stroke can impair speech comprehension

Parker Jones O.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Brain : a journal of neurology  (2018)

The impact of sample size on the reproducibility of voxel-based lesion deficit mappings

Green, DW; Crinion, JT; Ludersdorfer, P; Bowman, H

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA  (2018)

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the undamaged brain to identify lesion sites that predict language outcome after stroke

Lorca-Puls, DL; Gajardo-Vidal, A; Seghier M.L.; Leff A.P.; Sethi V.; Prejawa S.; Hope, TMH; Devlin J.T.; Price, CJ

Article ISI SCOPUS
BRAIN  (2017)

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Valeria Espejo

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Fonoaudiología

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

3
Andrea Gajardo

Profesora Investigadora

Universidad del Desarrollo

Concepción , Chile

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Diego Lorca

Associate Professor

Departamento de Especialidades

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile