The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $274,440 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to The Ohio State University. The project, titled "Investigating the Impacts of Vestibular and Auditory Function on Spatiotemporal Gait Characteristics and Spatial Navigation," aims to elucidate the interplay between age-related auditory and vestibular deficits and their effects on gait and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $514,546 to the University of Utah to investigate the biomechanical mechanisms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) and related labyrinth disorders. The project aims to: 1) quantify variance in human membranous labyrinth morphology to improve canalith repositioning...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $589,483 to Wayne State University to assess in vivo changes in central neuronal activation, molecular indicators of synaptic transmission, and motor function in response to vestibular nerve hypofunction generated by noise exposure. The project aims to evaluate the contributions of...
This federal Project Grant award, with ID R21DC022412, was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program. The grant will fund research to study how peripheral vestibular signals, generated by hair cells in the inner ear, create vestibular compound action potentials (VCAPs) that are used in the coordination of gaze, orientation, and motor movement. The goal is to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will test the capability of a vestibular implant (VI) to improve cognitive dysfunction in patients with severe vestibular damage. The $651,779 award, effective September 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will measure how the VI affects spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychological function in...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $828,022 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to James Madison University. The grant will support research to identify, for the first time in humans, nonlinearity in cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) - responses that reflect activation of the otolith...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal grant program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), provides $610,725 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on physiological mechanisms contributing to challenges in speech understanding among individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. The key objectives of the 5-year research program are to: 1) characterize...
This Project Grant award of $265,410 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, supports research to better understand the role of mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) components in vestibular hair cell maturation and gene therapy responsiveness. The research aims to characterize how the heterogeneous regional expression of MET subunits contributes to differences in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, provides $1,386,518 to The Johns Hopkins University to examine whether novel video-oculography (VOG) measures of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) can be used as valid markers of functional outcome following vestibular loss. The research aims to assess semicircular canal function using the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, provides $620,240 to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to conduct an observational study examining vestibular pathophysiology and clinical outcomes in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas (SVS) and neurofibromatosis type 2-related schwannomatosis (NF2/VS). The key objectives are to:...