Lisa Potts, PhD, research instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Instructor for the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine, has been studying how sound is processed by the hearing nerve. She recently completed…
American Hearing Research Foundation Selects 5 Research Projects to Fund for 2008 On October 16, 2007, the American Hearing Research Foundation Research Committee selected five research projects from more than 30 submitted this year, to fund in 2008. “This year…
Sensory hair cells deep within the inner ear convert the mechanical force of sound waves into signals that travel along the auditory neurons to give rise to the sensation of hearing in the brain. A microscopic formation called the mechano-electric…
Katherine Shim, PhD, assistant professor in the department of Otolaryngology & Communications Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has joined the AHRS’s Research Committee. Dr. Shim will take part in helping to select which research projects the AHRF…
This project involves the collection of auditory-nerve fiber responses to amplitude modulated sounds from chinchillas. Responses are to be compared between animals with normal hearing and animals with sensorineural hearing loss arising from either selective outer-hair-cell or inner-hair-cell damage. A…
DFNA2 is a type of inherited nonsyndromic progressive hearing loss. Hearing loss in DFNA2 families starts from high frequencies in the twenties or thirties, progressively affecting the mid and low frequencies later in life. Genetic analyses have demonstrated that mutations…
AHRF Awards Five $20,000 Research Grants For 2007 The American Hearing Research Foundation has selected five researchers to receive one-year, $20,000 grants for 2007. The recipients, from universities around the nation, will investigate hearing and hearing disorders. Research ranges from…
A new study by Northwestern University researchers, led by Nina Kraus, PhD, a member of the American Hearing Research Foundation’s Research Committee, suggests that people with musical training are more sensitive to the sounds in speech. The study, which appeared…
Steven Green, PhD, is a professor of biological sciences, otolaryngology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the recipient of a 2005 American Hearing Research Foundation Derlacki Grant for his project, “Role of JNK Signaling in the Death…
Vitamins May Prevent Noise Induced Hearing Loss. Researchers previously funded by the American Hearing Research Foundation are getting closer to developing a blend of antioxidant vitamins that could treat and prevent acute noise-induced hearing loss. Visit Website
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