# Public sharing of the Aphasia Recovery Cohort

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · 2021 · $223,500

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR, P50-DC014664) explores recovery
from language impairments following stroke. The center acquires a broad range of magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) modalities as well behavioral measures from stroke patients
experiencing language impairments. Like all modern large scale NIH grants, C-STAR has a
resource sharing plan that guides dissemination of curated data (following an embargo).
However, in addition to this data, the C-STAR team has been acquiring images from people with
aphasia using our Siemens 3T MRI scanner since 2006. This trove of data, which we refer to as
the `Aphasia Recovery Cohort', or ARC, is the product of both internally supported and NIH
funded awards that did not require resource sharing plans and includes data from 250 stroke
survivors scanned during 5776 unique sessions. In addition to the imaging sessions, ARC
patients participated in numerous treatment and assessment sessions providing a rich range of
behavioral measures. The current proposal seeks to curate these data to provide an
anonymized public database and search tool (ARCquery). This will allow data scientists from
around the world to apply their expertise to this archival dataset, providing new insights into
brain function as well as identifying predictors of recovery. This repository will provide a
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR) dataset.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10406397
- **Project number:** 3P50DC014664-06A1S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
- **Principal Investigator:** JULIUS FRIDRIKSSON
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $223,500
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2016-04-01 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10406397

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10406397, Public sharing of the Aphasia Recovery Cohort (3P50DC014664-06A1S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10406397. Licensed CC0.

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