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Through the world-renowned Central Institute for the Deaf, Washington University School of Medicine offers programs in deaf education, audiology, and speech and hearing sciences, while providing leading research and clinical services, as well. The CID also houses one of the world's foremost schools for deaf children, where kids learn to listen, talk and succeed in life.
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Richard Chole
Lindburg Professor and head of otolaryngology
Chole is known for developing the oto-endoscopic camera and a prosthetic device that functions as a replacement for middle ear bones damaged by injury or infection. His current research aims to understand the mechanisms which are operant in the pathophysiology of inflammatory osteolysis in the middle ...
Expertise: bacteriology, bone biology, inflammation, hearing, signal transduction
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Frank Yin
Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; The Stephen and Camilla Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...
Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics
Direct contact: (314) 935-6164
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yin@wustl.edu
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Margaret Skinner
Director, Adult Cochlear Implant Program
A professor of audiology, Skinner heads the Cochlear Implant Team at Washington University. Her research in fitting of hearing aids and cochlear implants has received international recognition.
Expertise: Cochlear implants
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Computer-based auditory training
New program teaches people to listen better after hearing loss
Jan. 29,
2009 -- Hearing aid manufacturers are constantly developing more sophisticated instruments, yet remarkably, studies show that user satisfaction hasn't increased much, if at all. A group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis wondered if they could address this problem by teaching people with hearing loss how to listen better.
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One-sided hearing implants
$3 million project will study one-sided hearing and cochlear implants
Aug. 14,
2008 --
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Jill B. Firszt, a cochlear-implant specialist at the School of Medicine, was working on her doctoral dissertation when she met with a 47-year-old patient who been deaf in one ear since childhood. The patient was scheduled to get a cochlear implant in her deaf ear because she recently had a tumor operation that destroyed the hearing in her good ear. Firszt knew there wasn't enough pertinent information to predict how well the woman would hear with the implant. That experience inspired Firszt to propose an in-depth study, now funded by the NIH, of one-sided hearing.
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"I CAN hear you"
New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant noise test
July 10,
2008 -- The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush — the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices — was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at the School of Medicine. The study showed that the hearing aids worked well in a noisy environment — the most challenging test for a hearing aid.
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Obituary: Ichiji Tasaki, Neurophysiologist
The Washington Post
Jan. 21,
2009 -- Obituary for Ichiji Tasaki, 98, a Japanese neurophysiologist who worked at the Central Institute for the Deaf at WUSTL from 1951-1953. During his time at WUSTL, he studied how sound waves travel through the ear and generate nerve impulses that the brain can interpret. His work helped lead to the formation of the field of audiology.
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Why does my voice sound so different when it is recorded and played back?
Scientific American - Mind & Brain
Jan. 14,
2009 -- Why does my voice sound so different when it is recorded and played back? WUSTL otolaryngology professor Timothy Hullar replies.
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Hearing impairment common in adults with diabetes
Reuters Health Medical News
June 17,
2008 -- Diabetes in adults appears to be an independent risk factor for hearing loss, according to the findings from a recent study. In a related editorial, WUSTL otolaryngology professor Keiko Hirose comments on screening for hearing loss.
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Smoking link to hearing problems
BBC News online
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Jan. 3,
2008 -- Teenagers who smoke, or whose mother smoked in pregnancy, are at higher risk of hearing problems and understanding what is being said, a Yale University study says. WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Todd comments.
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Anti-epileptic drugs may help hearing loss
United Press International
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March 15,
2007 -- WUSTL medical scientists led by otolaryngology professor Jianxin Bao have discovered some anti-epileptic drugs might help prevent or treat noise-induced hearing loss.
The study is reported in the journal Hearing Research.
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