This federal 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 $1,008,234 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the neural correlates of subjective and somatic tinnitus. The key objectives are to: Investigate hemodynamic responses (HRs) and resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) in the auditory cortex of individuals with...
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), will provide $145,989 over 5 years to researchers at the University of Rochester to investigate the neural basis of tinnitus and hyperacusis. The project aims to use advanced in vivo imaging techniques, including cell-specific calcium imaging and neurotransmitter signaling recordings, in an animal...
This $307,962 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) aims to develop and test a non-invasive, therapeutic hypothermia treatment for tinnitus. The project, conducted by Restorear Devices LLC, a for-profit medical device company, will evaluate whether delivering mild therapeutic hypothermia to the inner ear can provide symptomatic relief and reduce...
This federal 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), aims to investigate the neurological mechanisms underlying hearing loss and associated sensory processing disorders. The $131,408 award to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, spanning July 2025 to June 2027, will leverage advanced neuroimaging and electrophysiology techniques to track...
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), will support research on neural mechanisms underlying spatial auditory attention and potential remediation strategies for improving spatial hearing outcomes in bilateral cochlear implant users. The $147,486 award to Carnegie Mellon University, running from June 2025 to December 2027, will fund...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC022670 for $610,725.00 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173). The grant supports a research program to characterize the effects of sensorineural hearing loss on neural coding and perception of speech-in-noise. The key objectives are to: Measure the impact of distorted cochlear tonotopicity on neural...
This $1,841,384 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), supports research to investigate how cholinergic signaling in the inferior colliculus (IC) affects auditory processing. The overarching goal is to determine how cholinergic modulation of specific IC neuron populations and their synaptic inputs contributes to adaptive sound processing, and...
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), will support research investigating the role of connectivity between the hippocampus and auditory cortex in adverse listening conditions. The $208,750 award to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), will utilize high-resolution 7 Tesla functional...
This Project Grant award for $147,486 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.173). The funding supports research at Emory University to investigate how the auditory cortex and inferior colliculus in mice recover spatial hearing abilities after unilateral hearing loss. The central goal is to elucidate the neural mechanisms that enable behavioral...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the federal Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $2,516,931 to conduct translational research on the circuit-level mechanisms underlying auditory hallucinations. The primary research objectives are to elucidate the neurobiological basis of auditory hallucinations through a combination of computational modeling, human neuroimaging, and mouse neurophysiology experiments. Key activities...