Barbara S. Herrmann,
MS, PhD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Investigator, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
barbara_herrmann@meei.harvard.edu
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About My Research
Dr. Barbara Herrmann studies electrophysiology of the human auditory and vestibular systems. Her goal is to develop a more thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms of these systems and optimize measures for diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Her primary interests include the identification and diagnosis of hearing loss in infants using electrophysiologic measures and the use of electrically auditory evoked responses in cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant patients.
Education
MS, University of Wisconsin–Madison
PhD, Communication Disorders/Audiology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Professional Societies
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Acoustical Society of America
Sigma Xi
American Auditory Society
Honors
Reynolds Society Achievement Award
Advisory Boards
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Advisory Committee for Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
Advisory Board for Gift of Hearing Foundation
Publications powered by Harvard Catalyst Profiles
- Auditory Brainstem Implant Outcomes in Tumor and Nontumor Patients: A Systematic Review. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Feb 08.
- Characterization and Clinical Use of Bone Conduction Transducers at Extended High Frequencies. Hear Res. 2023 03 01; 429:108688.
- A Modified Pediatric Ranked Order Speech Perception Score to Assess Speech Recognition Development in Children With Cochlear Implants. Am J Audiol. 2022 Sep; 31(3):613-632.
- The Relationship Between Impedance, Programming and Word Recognition in a Large Clinical Dataset of Cochlear Implant Recipients. Trends Hear. 2022 Jan-Dec; 26:23312165211060983.
- Adult Auditory Brainstem Implant Outcomes and Three-Dimensional Electrode Array Position on Computed Tomography. Ear Hear. 2021 Nov-Dec 01; 42(6):1741-1754.
- Congenital Cytomegalovirus Targeted Screening Implementation and Outcomes: A Retrospective Chart Review. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 07; 167(1):178-182.
- Optimized Diagnostic Approach to Patients Suspected of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence. Ear Hear. 2021 Sep/Oct; 42(5):1295-1305.
- Pediatric Single-Sided Deafness: A Review of Prevalence, Radiologic Findings, and Cochlear Implant Candidacy. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2022 Mar; 131(3):233-238.
- Cochlear Implantation Hearing Outcome in Ménière's Disease. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 03; 166(3):523-529.
- Predicting Development of Bilateral Menière's Disease Based on cVEMP Threshold and Tuning. Otol Neurotol. 2019 12; 40(10):1346-1352.
- Normalizing cVEMPs: Which Method Is the Most Effective? Ear Hear. 2019 Jul/Aug; 40(4):878-886.
- Effect of anesthesia on evoked auditory responses in pediatric auditory brainstem implant surgery. Laryngoscope. 2020 02; 130(2):507-513.
- Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Menière's Disease: A Comparison of Response Metrics. Otol Neurotol. 2019 03; 40(3):e215-e224.
- Toward Optimizing cVEMP: 2,000-Hz Tone Bursts Improve the Detection of Superior Canal Dehiscence. Audiol Neurootol. 2018; 23(6):335-344.
- Toward Optimizing VEMP: Calculating VEMP Inhibition Depth With a Generic Template. Ear Hear. 2018 Nov/Dec; 39(6):1199-1206.
- Audiometric and cVEMP Thresholds Show Little Correlation With Symptoms in Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome. Otol Neurotol. 2018 10; 39(9):1153-1162.
- Toward Optimizing Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (cVEMP): Combining Air-Bone Gap and cVEMP Thresholds to Improve Diagnosis of Superior Canal Dehiscence. Otol Neurotol. 2018 02; 39(2):212-220.
- Toward Optimizing Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials: Normalization Reduces the Need for Strong Neck Muscle Contraction. Audiol Neurootol. 2017; 22(4-5):282-291.
- Mobile Hearing Testing Applications and the Diagnosis of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Cautionary Tale. Otol Neurotol. 2018 01; 39(1):e1-e4.
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Central Auditory Pathways in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018 03; 158(3):432-442.
- Auditory Brainstem Implant Array Position Varies Widely Among Adult and Pediatric Patients and Is Associated With Perception. Ear Hear. 2017 Nov/Dec; 38(6):e343-e351.
- Histopathology of the Human Inner Ear in the Cogan Syndrome with Cochlear Implantation. Audiol Neurootol. 2017; 22(2):116-123.
- The pattern and degree of capsular fibrous sheaths surrounding cochlear electrode arrays. Hear Res. 2017 05; 348:44-53.
- Serial cVEMP Testing is Sensitive to Disease Progression in Ménière Patients. Otol Neurotol. 2016 12; 37(10):1614-1619.
- Reflectance Measures from Infant Ears With Normal Hearing and Transient Conductive Hearing Loss. Ear Hear. 2016 Sep-Oct; 37(5):560-71.
- Increasing the Stimulation Rate Reduces cVEMP Testing Time by More Than Half With No Significant Difference in Threshold. Otol Neurotol. 2016 08; 37(7):933-6.
- Outcomes following Pediatric Auditory Brainstem Implant Surgery: Early Experiences in a North American Center. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 07; 155(1):133-8.
- Evaluating Inhibition of Motoneuron Firing From Electromyogram Data to Assess Vestibular Output Using Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials. Ear Hear. 2015 Sep-Oct; 36(5):591-604.
- Systematic Review of Nontumor Pediatric Auditory Brainstem Implant Outcomes. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Nov; 153(5):739-50.
- Retrosigmoid Craniotomy for Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Adult Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2015 Dec; 76(6):440-50.
- Auditory brainstem implant: electrophysiologic responses and subject perception. Ear Hear. 2015 May-Jun; 36(3):368-76.
- Auditory brainstem implantation in a 16-month-old boy with cochlear hypoplasia. Otol Neurotol. 2015 Apr; 36(4):618-24.
- Direct parasagittal magnetic resonance imaging of the internal auditory canal to determine cochlear or auditory brainstem implant candidacy in children. Laryngoscope. 2015 Oct; 125(10):2382-5.
- Normalization reduces intersubject variability in cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials. Otol Neurotol. 2014 Sep; 35(8):e222-7.
- Superior canal dehiscence length and location influences clinical presentation and audiometric and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential testing. Audiol Neurootol. 2014; 19(2):97-105.
- Abstracts of Presentations at the International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI), a Joint Conference of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), the International Society for Functional Source Imaging (ISFSI), the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM), the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), in Geneva, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2013. Clin EEG Neurosci. 2013 Dec 24.
- The pathologic basis of facial nerve stimulation in otosclerosis and multi-channel cochlear implantation. Otol Neurotol. 2013 Dec; 34(9):1603-9.
- Differential cochlear implant outcomes in older adults. Laryngoscope. 2013 Aug; 123(8):1952-6.
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in patients with superior semicircular canal dehiscence. Otol Neurotol. 2013 Feb; 34(2):360-7.
- Utility of cVEMPs in bilateral superior canal dehiscence syndrome. Laryngoscope. 2013 Jan; 123(1):226-32.
- Brainstem auditory evoked potentials suggest a role for the ventral cochlear nucleus in tinnitus. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2012 Dec; 13(6):819-33.
- Cochlear implantation in children with anomalous cochleovestibular anatomy: a systematic review. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Feb; 146(2):180-90.
- Cochlear implantation in children with anomalous cochleovestibular anatomy. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Feb; 146(2):295-7.
- Inner-ear measurements on temporal bone computed tomography, SNHL, and CI outcome: is there a relationship? Cochlear Implants Int. 2011 May; 12 Suppl 1:S54-7.
- Cochlear implantation in children with congenital X-linked deafness due to novel mutations in POU3F4 gene. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2010 Dec; 119(12):815-22.
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) can detect asymptomatic saccular hydrops. Laryngoscope. 2006 Jun; 116(6):987-92.
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) in patients with Ménière's disease with drop attacks. Laryngoscope. 2006 May; 116(5):776-9.
- How does the sound pressure generated by circumaural, supra-aural, and insert earphones differ for adult and infant ears? Ear Hear. 2005 Dec; 26(6):636-50.
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials versus vestibular test battery in patients with Meniere's disease. Otol Neurotol. 2004 Nov; 25(6):981-6.
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials show altered tuning in patients with Ménière's disease. Otol Neurotol. 2004 May; 25(3):333-8.
- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence presenting as conductive hearing loss without vertigo. Otol Neurotol. 2004 Mar; 25(2):121-9.
- The minimum speech test battery in profound unilateral hearing loss. Otol Neurotol. 2001 Jul; 22(4):480-6.
- Selective inner hair cell loss in premature infants and cochlea pathological patterns from neonatal intensive care unit autopsies. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001 Jun; 127(6):629-36.
- Nucleus 22 cochlear implantation results in postmeningitic deafness. Laryngoscope. 1997 Dec; 107(12 Pt 1):1606-9.
- Early hearing testing of still critically ill neonates. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1996 Mar; 122(3):289-93.
- Failure to clinically predict NICU hearing loss. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 1995 Mar; 34(3):138-45.
- A primary requirement for nodal in the formation and maintenance of the primitive streak in the mouse. Development. 1994 Jul; 120(7):1919-28.
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Audiology Department. Am J Audiol. 1991 Nov 01; 1(1):14-8.
- Clinical experience with electroneurography in the pediatric patient. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1989 May; 115(5):600-7.
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