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Recent Photos from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
2010 Photos
Dr. Jay Rubinstein (left) and Dr. Jennifer Hsia implant a novel vestibular prosthesis in a patient at the University of Washington Medical Center. This is the first time a prosthesis for balance disorders has ever been implanted in a human. In the United States, more than 150,000 individuals are estimated to suffer from severe to profound bilateral vestibular deficiency, and a prosthesis like this potentially could benefit many of them, as well as patients with episodic disabling vestibular dysfunction such as Ménière’s disease. NIDCD funding helped support development of the device and preclinical animal testing for its use in the treatment of balance disorders. (Photo credit: Clare McLean, University of Washington)
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Dr. Peter Gillespie, professor of otolaryngology at Oregon Health and Science University, delivered the first Robert J. Wenthold Memorial lecture on The Hair Bundles' Protein Constellation. The seminar, part of the NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series, was in honor of Bob Wenthold who served as NIDCD's scientific director from 1998 through 2008, and was a vital force in helping build the NIDCD intramural program's research foundation in such areas as genetics, molecular and developmental biology, computational modeling and brain imaging. On the clinical side, he championed NIDCD's Otolaryngology Research Fellow Program, a program that provides research training under the mentorship of NIDCD scientists and helps move research findings on potential treatments from the laboratory into clinical practice.(Photo credit: NIH Medical Arts)
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2008 Photos
In
February 2008, NIDCD researchers reported that they'd used functional
MRI to study the brains of musicians playing improvised jazz. The
images revealed that a large brain region involved in monitoring
one's performance shuts down during creative improvisation, while
a small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and
behaviors is highly activated. (Image courtesy of Charles J. Limb
and Allen R. Braun, NIDCD.)
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In
October 2008, NIDCD launched a new campaign to protect the hearing
of tweens. A new web site offers parents resources to help tweens
avoid hearing loss from noise.
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NIDCD
Director Dr. James Battey, Jr., delivered opening remarks at the
Institute's anniversary symposium highlighting 20 years of research
accomplishments on October 23, 2008. (Photo by Bill Branson, NIH
Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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Dr.
Richard Axel, university professor and investigator in the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, spoke on "Internal
Representations of the Olfactory World" at the NIDCD 20th
Anniversary Symposium. Dr. Axel is a recipient of the 2004 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking research
on the sense of smell. (Photo by Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts
and Photography Branch)
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