We are interested in the gating of mechanically sensitive ion channels, which open in response to force on the channel proteins. We study these channels primarily in vertebrate hair cells—the receptor cells of the inner ear, which are sensitive to sounds...
Dr. Jeffrey Tao Cheng’s primary research interests are in the area of structure and function relations of normal and pathological ears, as well as damage of the ear and how to repair it for hearing restoration.
Dr. Cheng’s laboratory uses newly developed...
Language communication is a unique ability fundamental to human cognition. Language communication can become impaired as a result of stroke or brain injury, or a mental illness. The overarching goal of my research program is to understand the functional...
Functional complexity of a neural circuit depends on features of its component neurons such as spiking characteristics, total number, synaptic structures, and connectivity. In addition to varying across the many nodes of a neural circuit, these neuronal...
Daryush Mehta is Director of the Voice Science and Technology Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center. Daryush is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Affiliated Faculty and Director of Student Affairs in the Speech and...
Neural mechanisms underlying the auditory phenotype of mild traumatic brain injury.
Dr. Faisal Karmali is the Co-Director of the Jenks Vestibular Physiology Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear. His primary research seeks to understand how the brain determines spatial orientation when using senses such as the vestibular system and vision...
Dr. Bradley Welling’s clinical and research interests focus primarily on NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas and the hearing loss, disequilibrium and facial paralysis that may result from the disease.
In 1996, Dr. Welling and his collaborators published...
Dr. Vallila Rohter studies learning in individuals with aphasia, with the hypothesis that predicting whether a patient will improve following therapy instruction depends upon their language ability and their learning ability. In collaboration with...
Our unique perception of the world evolves with experience throughout our lifespan. As neuroscientists we believe that differences in sensory perception, including pathological perturbations of our ability to accurately perceive our environment, partly...
