WashU Medicine researcher Lisa Davidson, PhD, and her lab are exploring ways to optimize speech perception in children with hearing loss. Strangely though, the latest technology may not offer the greatest benefit for all types of hearing loss. According to Davidson, understanding speech requires more than identifying individual vowel and consonant sounds or knowledge of […]
Intent on becoming a professional musician, new faculty member Katelyn Berg, PhD, explains how a guest speaker in a science elective course changed her career path and how pizza guides her national and international travel. What inspired you to choose this career path? I never intended to become an audiologist. In fact, I’d never heard […]
Hearing scientists in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine are busy preparing their latest data for presentation at the upcoming MidWinter Meeting of the American Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). The association is the world’s largest organization of hearing and balance researchers, with members located in universities, medical centers, research […]
Washington University Departments of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Neuroscience co-hosted a conference featuring the latest advances in auditory research, November 18-19. The event was held at both the Eric P. Newman Education Center and the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Building on the medical school campus. The conference featured presentations by global leaders […]
Jay T. Rubinstein, MD, PhD, professor and Virginia Merrill Bloedel chair of the department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at University of Washington Medical Center delivered the 44th annual Senturia Lecture to the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine on Nov. 13. Rubinstein received undergraduate and master’s degrees in engineering at Brown […]
A new study at Washington University School of Medicine hopes to shed some light on one of the most common causes of hearing loss in newborns – a viral infection known as cytomegalovirus or CMV. Pediatric otolaryngologist and Principal Investigator Keiko Hirose, MD, knows well the risk of CMV infection in utero. Her lab studies […]
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) hosted the 17th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Technologies, July 10-13 in Vancouver. Surgeons, trainees and audiologists from the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University made several important research contributions to the event. The annual meeting is designed to showcase trending topics, novel research, and interdisciplinary […]
Basic scientists from the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University assembled in Anaheim, Calif., for the annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), Feb. 3-7. The meeting is the largest gathering of hearing and balance scientists in the world. Efforts to advance our understanding of hearing and the disorders that affect […]
Assistant Professor Tatyana Yakusheva, PhD, and her team finally settled in their new research lab and work area in the new Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building (NRB), one of the world’s largest neuroscience research buildings. This 11-story building houses hundreds of scientists across the neuroscience research spectrum. The Yakusheva Lab was the first to […]
A team of Washington University scientists is working on a “one-size-fits-all” approach to help prevent hearing loss and a variety of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Many sensory and neurological disorders are caused by the over-activation of neurons by the neurotransmitter glutamate. Compounds that can block the various classes of glutamate receptors are well known to […]