Nilgoun Bahar, SLP, PhD

Nilgoun Bahar, SLP, PhD, is a postdoctoral research scholar in the ALBA Lab at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, where she works primarily on the Dyslexia Project. She earned her PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Oxford’s Brain, Speech, and Language Lab and holds a clinical master’s degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Toronto. She completed her clinical residency at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto.

Nilgoun’s research integrates clinical practice and developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on the neuropsychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying learning-based language disorders. Her work explores developmental dyslexia, developmental language disorder (DLD), and their co-occurrence with other neurodevelopmental conditions. She specializes in multimodal neuroimaging techniques, including diffusion MRI, quantitative MRI, functional MRI, and surface-based morphometric analyses, to investigate the biological foundations of language and learning challenges in children.