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Neuroethologist Ron Hoy on College, Careers, and Crawdads

In April 2006, at the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists & Professors of the Southeast (SYNAPSE), I had the honor of sitting down for breakfast with Dr. Ron Hoy, the David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor of Biology at Cornell University. In addition to receiving grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Hoy has been supported by the National I...

Psychosocial correlates of hearing aid adjustment.

Despite considerable evidence regarding the detrimental effects of untreated hearing loss, there continues to be an underutilization of hearing aids by adults. The Long Term Follow-Up of Patients in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/Veterans Affairs (NIDCD/VA) Hearing Aid Clinical Trial (Cooperative Studies Program [CSP] 418-A) provided the opportunity to comp...

DPP6 Loss Impacts Hippocampal Synaptic Development and Induces Behavioral Impairments in Recognition, Learning and Memory

Molecular Neurophysiology and Biophysics Section, Program in Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, United States, Section on Neuroplasticity, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, Advanced Imaging Core, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Instit...

FGF induces oscillations of Hes1 expression and Ras/ERK activation

Models of vocal communication generally involve interactions between the perception and production systems that allow the tuning of motor commands to achieve sound targets [3]. Our results shed further light on these models by indicating that the auditory pathways necessary for vocal performance are, to some degree at least, distinct from those necessary for conscious perception. The fact that ...

Noise and the Impairment of Hearing

*Chief, Hearing Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Suite 400B, Rockville, Maryland 20892; formerly, Hearing Conservation Consultant, Hearing Conservation, Bio-Acoustics Division, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency †Program Manager, Hearing Conservation, ...