About me
Dr. Youssef Rami earned his PhD in Neurolinguistics from Chouaib Doukkali University in Morocco, in the field of language disorders (aphasia, dementia...) in adults, focusing on linguistic aspects. He also pursued further studies in the mental/psychological aspects of language at the University of York in the UK.
In his research, he adapted the Object and Action Naming Battery, and established norms for a number of psycholinguistic variables known to influence naming speed and accuracy, comprehension, and other language abilities in aphasia and normal language processing, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The OANB is widely used to assess object identification, lexical/semantic retrieval, or word articulation for language mapping in the context of awake neurosurgery or other neurodegenerative disease. He has also adapted, in his PhD thesis, the short form of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE-SF), which is widely used in clinical assessments to measure the language functions of aphasic patients' performance and define language difficulties for classifying patients into distinct anatomically based aphasic syndromes.
Dr. Rami underwent training at the Center for Language and Brain and the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. The goal was to explore the neurolinguistic approach to awake
surgery, as intraoperative direct electrical stimulation (DES) is increasingly used in patients operated on for tumors in critical language areas.
Dr. Rami is a member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the British Neuropsychological Society. He has collaborated on various projects with universities in Morocco, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia.