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Melissa Stockbridge

Melissa Stockbridge, PhD

Highlights

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Melissa Stockbridge

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Background

I am an Assistant Professor in the Cerebrovascular Division of Neurology with a joint appointment in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a licensed speech-language pathologist. The core objective of my research is to improve outcomes for adults with acquired disorders of communication through (1) the development and integration of technology and instruments of assessment that inform a better understanding of brain structure-function relationships, the validation of novel approaches and adjuncts to traditional speech language therapy, and the incorporation of biological and psychological individual differences into therapy provision. By integrating emerging neuroimaging and machine learning technologies into cognitive-communication rehabilitation for people with disorders of communication due to brain injury caused by stroke or trauma or due to neurodegenerative disease, an important dimension of my work is not only to improve both precision and individualization of therapy for those with access to gold-standard care, but also to establish cost-effective solutions to the long-term management of neurogenic disorders of communication that are deployable in decentralized and resource-constrained settings.

Additional Academic Titles

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Google Scholar - Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tund74wAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications

  • Stockbridge MD, Neal V, Liu S, Kelly L, Diaz-Carr I, Kang JS, Faria AV, Hillis AE. Lesion volume and location can be estimated by analysis of the new NIH Stroke Scale picture description. PloS one. 2025 Dec 3;20(12):e0337429.
  • Stockbridge MD, Kelly L, Newman-Norlund S, White B, Bourgeois M, Rothermel E, Fridriksson J, Lyden P, Hillis AE. New Picture Stimuli for the NIH Stroke Scale. Stroke. 2024;55:443-451.
  • Stockbridge MD, Elm J, Breining BL, Tippett DC, Sebastian R, Cassarly C, Teklehaimanot A, Spell L, Sheppard SM, Vitti E, Ruch K, Goldberg EB, Kelly C, Keator LM, Fridriksson J, Hillis AE. Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation in Subacute Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke. 2023; 54:912-920.
  • Stockbridge MD, Tippett DC, Breining BL, Vitti E, Hillis AE. Task Performance to Discriminate Among Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Cortex. 2021;145-201-211.
  • Stockbridge MD, Newman RS, Zukowski A, Slawson KK, Doran A, Ratner NB. Language profiles in children with concussion. Brain Inj. 2020;34(4):567-574.
  • Stockbridge MD, Newman RS. Enduring cognitive and linguistic deficits in individuals with a history of concussion. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2019;28(4):1554-1570.

Expertise

Education

  • University of Maryland (College Park), Ph.D., 2018
  • University of Maryland (Baltimore County), B.A., 2008