Serena Song is a medical student in the Medical College of Georgia who first became engaged in the lab's work as an undergraduate in the Emory University College of Arts and Sciences. With an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology, Serena brings knowledge gained from studying the intersectionality of functional neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology and behavioral biology with a particular interest in stroke and aphasia.
She currently is involved in the lab's subacute aphasia recovery study and the longitudinal stroke recovery & lesion profile initiative. She also was involved in the lab's transcranial direct current simulation studies, which wrapped up in 2025, and task fMRI optimization studies for aphasia predicition completed in 2023.
Her responsibilities include preprocessing resting and task fMRI using neuroimaging softwares such as AFNI, matlab, FSLeyes, and others. She additionally analyzes cognitive and behavioral data, completes statistical analyses using JMP, writes manuscripts and abstracts, and trains new student members of the lab.
Her professional interests include longitudinal aphasia recovery in the context of stroke patients, optimizing neuroimaging predictors of language recovery in post-stroke patients with aphasia, and connecting neuroimaging research with its clinical utility in hopes of optimizing neural rehabilitation therapies.
Serena is from Suwanee, Georgia and when not working in the lab or in classes, she can be found creating and editing videos.