<p>Nina Dronkers received her PhD degree in Neuropsychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985.</p><p>Dr. Dronkers is a consultant to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and specializes in adult speech and language disorders. Dr. Dronkers assists in the evaluation of those individuals with progressive changes in their speech or language skills and participates in ongoing research concerning language abilities in dementia.</p><p>She is currently the Director of the Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders and the Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service at the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Linguistics at the University of California, Davis.</p><p>Dr. Dronkers' expertise is in the field of aphasia and understanding the language and communication deficits that can occur with neurological disease. She has conducted extensive research in this area and the localization of language functions in the brain.</p>