Eaton-Peabody Laboratories: Investigators
EPL Investigators have academic ties to the Department of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), the Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), a joint venture of HMS and MIT, the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and the Department of Neurology at the Mass. General Hospital.
Research by EPL investigators spans the auditory system from the outer and middle ears to the auditory cortex, and includes several major themes: conductive hearing loss, cochlear micromechanics, mechanisms of otoacoustic emissions, cochlear transduction and synaptic transmission, sensorineural hearing loss, hair-cell and neuronal regeneration, descending control of the middle and inner ears, the neurophysiology of auditory perception, optimization of brainstem auditory implants, and the mechanisms and treatments for human tinnitus.
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Cochlear stress responses
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Descending auditory pathways
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Genetic control of hair cell regeneration
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Middle ear mechanics
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Neural coding of sound
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Biophysics of hair cells and afferent neurons
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Stem cells and cochlear regeneration
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Neuroanatomy of auditory pathways
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Efferent control and cochlear mechanics
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Coding of interaural time
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Age-related and noise-induced hearing loss
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Auditory brainstem implants; optical stimulation
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Hair cell afferent and efferent innervation
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Efferent control of cochlear function
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Otosclerosis and cochlear drug delivery
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Imaging auditory function in humans
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Middle ear mechanics
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Comparative middle ear physiology
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Auditory cortex development and plasticity
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Middle ear mechanics
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Cochlear synaptic transmission
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Cochlear mechanics and otoacoustic emissions
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Cochlear development and regeneration
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Cochlear nerve degeneration
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Auditory adaptation to natural sounds
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