Zoe Ezzes

Speech Language Pathologist
[email protected]
Fields of Interest: 
Language

Zoe is a speech-language pathologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the ALBA Language Neurobiology Lab led by Dr. Marilu Gorno Tempini. Zoe has a BS degree in Cognitive Science with a specialization in neuroscience from UC San Diego and an MS degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University. She conducts diagnostic speech and language assessments for research participants at the ALBA Lab and UCSF Dyslexia Center, and she also provides speech and language therapy for patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) in treatment research in collaboration with the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab (ARTLab) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Publications: 

Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia.

Neuropsychologia

Yadollahikhales G, Mandelli ML, Ezzes Z, Pillai J, Ratnasiri B, Baquirin DP, Miller Z, DeLeon J, Tee BL, Seeley W, Rosen H, Miller B, Kramer J, Sturm V, Gorno-Tempini ML, Montembeault M

Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Markers: Insights from English, Chinese, and Italian Speakers.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Santi GC, Catricalà E, Kwan S, Wong A, Ezzes Z, Wauters L, Esposito V, Conca F, Gibbons D, Fernandez E, Santos-Santos MA, TaFu C, Li-Ying KC, Lo R, Tsoh J, Chan LT, Garcia AM, de Leon J, Miller Z, Vonk JMJ, Bruffaerts R, Grasso SM, Allen IE, Cappa SF, Gorno-Tempini ML, Tee BL

Digital language markers distinguish frontal from right anterior temporal lobe atrophy in frontotemporal dementia.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Vonk JMJ, Morin BT, Pillai J, Rolon DR, Bogley R, Baquirin DP, Ezzes Z, Tee BL, DeLeon J, Wauters L, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Younes K, Miller Z, García AM, Mandelli ML, Sturm VE, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML

Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Yadollahikhales G, Mandelli ML, Ezzes Z, Pillai J, Ratnasiri B, Baquirin DP, Miller Z, de Leon J, Tee BL, Seeley W, Rosen H, Miller B, Kramer J, Sturm V, Gorno-Tempini ML, Montembeault M

Clinical dimensions along the non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Illán-Gala I, Lorca-Puls DL, Tee BL, Ezzes Z, de Leon J, Miller ZA, Rubio-Guerra S, Santos-Santos M, Gómez-Andrés D, Grinberg LT, Spina S, Kramer JH, Wauters LD, Henry ML, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Seeley WW, Mandelli ML, Gorno-Tempini ML

Neural basis of speech and grammar symptoms in non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Lorca-Puls DL, Gajardo-Vidal A, Mandelli ML, Illán-Gala I, Ezzes Z, Wauters LD, Battistella G, Bogley R, Ratnasiri B, Licata AE, Battista P, García AM, Tee BL, Lukic S, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Seeley WW, Grinberg LT, Spina S, Miller BL, Miller ZA, Henry ML, Dronkers NF, Gorno-Tempini ML

Assessing processing speed and its neural correlates in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia with a non-verbal tablet-based task.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Gajardo-Vidal A, Montembeault M, Lorca-Puls DL, Licata AE, Bogley R, Erlhoff S, Ratnasiri B, Ezzes Z, Battistella G, Tsoy E, Pereira CW, DeLeon J, Tee BL, Henry ML, Miller ZA, Rankin KP, Mandelli ML, Possin KL, Gorno-Tempini ML

An open dataset of connected speech in aphasia with consensus ratings of auditory-perceptual features.

Data

Ezzes Z, Schneck SM, Casilio M, Fromm D, Mefford A, de Riesthal MR, Wilson SM