Research Team

Jacob Kean, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Associate Research Director at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. He is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the International Neuropsychological Society. He is a certified speech-language pathologist and has worked as a clinician and researcher for the past 10 years with persons with acquired brain injuries. The focus of his research is rehabilitation and recovery of cognitive and linguistic impairments following acquired brain injury and areas of interest include clinical and outcome measurement and neuroimaging research. He collaborates with investigators across the continuum of basic and clinical science to promote the application of translational medicine in clinical populations.

Dr. Neumann has her M.A. in Psychology from Rutgers, NJ and a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is currently Assistant Research Faculty at IU School of Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Clinical Research Faculty at Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. Dr. Neumann’s research primarily focuses on understanding and treating a variety of emotional processing and regulation problems after brain injury (BI). She is particularly interested in studying: 1) reasons why people with BI have difficulty recognizing how other people feel, and ways to better treat these deficits; 2) if and how anger/ aggression after BI might be influenced by impaired emotion recognition and misinterpretation of others’ behavior; 3) deficits generating emotions, emotional self-awareness, and understanding ones’ own emotions; 4) connections between emotion processing deficits, empathy, and interpersonal relationships; and 5) emotion and communication treatments to improve marital relationships after BI. Dr. Neumann has recently been awarded with the Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund, and the Mary E. Switzer Merit Fellowship to study anger and aggression after TBI.