This Project Grant award of $620,240 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports an observational study examining vestibular pathophysiology and the vestibular implications of standard interventions in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas and NF2-related schwannomatosis. The study aims to analyze vestibular dysfunction, its relationship to clinical disability and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, provides $274,440 to The Ohio State University to investigate the impacts of age-related auditory and vestibular deficits on gait characteristics and spatial navigation abilities. The research aims to elucidate the interplay between hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction, and their effects on...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, provides $195,625 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct research on how peripheral vestibular signals generate vestibular compound action potentials (VCAPs). The research aims to reconcile observations between in-vitro electrophysiological recordings from calyx afferents and in-vivo VCAP...
This Project Grant award of $257,256 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders will support research to investigate the heterogeneity and molecular regulation of vestibular ganglion neuron (VGN) afferent terminal morphology. The project aims to: 1) Classify VGNs by their transcriptional profiles and correlate this to known anatomic VGN subtypes, and 2) Identify potential...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC021684 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The $828,022 award to James Madison University in Virginia aims to use novel electrophysiological methods to identify, for the first time in humans, nonlinearity in cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) - responses that reflect activation of the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, will support research to determine the neural basis of tinnitus and hyperacusis. The $145,989 award to the University of Rochester will utilize an animal model and in vivo imaging techniques to investigate whether altered cell-specific activity or disrupted neurotransmitter signaling in the auditory and...
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York received a $445,503 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program. The grant funding will support research investigating the modulation of vestibular afferent properties by cholinergic and GABAergic inputs, and their behavioral outcomes. Specifically, the grantee will use in...
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...
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 $147,486 to Emory University to study the neural mechanisms underlying recovery of sound localization after unilateral hearing loss in mice. The research aims to determine how changes in neural activity in the auditory cortex and inferior colliculus drive behavioral recovery of...
This Project Grant award of $131,408 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), aims to investigate the neurological changes underlying auditory processing disorders like tinnitus and hyperacusis after noise-induced hearing loss. The research strategy involves three specific aims: 1) leveraging two-photon calcium imaging to track changes in auditory cortex...