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Makayla Gibson
Title: | Managing Director, McCausland Center for Brain Imaging (MCBI) Neuroimaging Program
Manager |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences | |
Email: | mjgibson@email.sc.edu |

I am a cognitive and neural scientist specializing in neuroimaging, stroke recovery, and large-scale data curation. My research integrates structural MRI, lesion-symptom mapping, and aging biomarkers to advance personalized models of stroke outcome. My work highlights cerebellar contributions to language and motor recovery, the impact of vascular and health factors on brain aging, and the translation of imaging findings into clinically actionable tools for stroke care and improved brain health.
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Our team has made both the Stroke Outcome Optimization Project (SOOP) and the Aphasia Recovery Cohort (ARC) openly available on OpenNeuro, providing fully BIDS-compliant structural MRI, lesion masks, and clinical/behavioral data.