Rate My Professor Fatemeh Mollaei

Dr Fatemeh Mollaei is a Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. Her research focuses on motor speech disorders, particularly investigating the roles of sensory and motor control systems in speech production in Parkinson’s disease using techniques including altered feedback paradigms, EEG, auditory brainstem responses, functional and structural MRI, and MEG. She also works on developing rehabilitation methods for motor speech disorders in acquired neurogenic disorders through non-invasive brain stimulation such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation. Dr Mollaei is affiliated with the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading, contributing to research on language, multilingualism, ageing, and neurodegeneration.

Key publications include the 2013 paper Sensorimotor adaptation of speech in Parkinson’s disease and the 2019 paper The relationship between speech perceptual discrimination and speech production in Parkinson’s Disease. Additional work covers pause characteristics of sentence production in Parkinson’s disease published in 2026 and microstructural white matter changes underlying speech production in Parkinson’s disease from 2024. Her contributions advance understanding of neurogenic speech disorders and rehabilitation practices in clinical language sciences.