Researchers Secure NIH Grant to Uncover Neural Mechanisms of Hearing Loss
The $453,000 NIH grant will help researchers investigate how hearing loss affects auditory processing and sound localization.
The $453,000 NIH grant will help researchers investigate how hearing loss affects auditory processing and sound localization.
A team of Mass Eye and Ear researchers in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories have been awarded a five-year, $12.5 million P50 Clinical Research Center Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicable Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their research on cochlear synaptopathy, or hidden hearing loss, a type of hearing damage first discovered at Mass Eye and Ear in 2009.
In a paper published in the “Journal of General Internal Medicine,” the researchers report that frequent use of NSAIDs or acetaminophen, or regular use of COX-2 inhibitors, was associated with higher risk of tinnitus.