Susan Shore, Ph.D., led groundbreaking research on how the brain processes bi-sensory  information, and how these processes can be harnessed for personalized stimulation to treat tinnitus. In her webinar she described the trajectory from basic science to therapeutic device. An Emerging Research Grants scientist from 1987 and 1991 to 1995, Shore is a professor emerita in Michigan Medicine’s department of otolaryngology and the University of Michigan’s departments of physiology and biomedical engineering. 

As noted during registration and the webinar itself, this webinar was not recorded.

For more information, Dr. Shore recommends the following two published papers: 

• Kendra L. Marks et al., Auditory-somatosensory bimodal stimulation desynchronizes brain circuitry to reduce tinnitus in guinea pigs and humans. Sci. Transl. Med. 10, eaal3175 (2018). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal3175

• Jones GR, Martel DT, Riffle TL, et al. Reversing Synchronized Brain Circuits Using Targeted Auditory-Somatosensory Stimulation to Treat Phantom Percepts: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(6):e2315914. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.15914

HHF’s research webinars are a live webinar series that shares the latest developments in hearing and balance research through our community of funded researchers. All sessions include an interactive Q&A with the speaker.

The series is moderated by Anil K. Lalwani, M.D., a member of HHF's Board of Directors and the head of HHF's Council of Scientific Trustees, which oversees the ERG program. He is a professor and the vice chair for research in the division of otology, neurology, and skull base surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and a codirector at the Columbia Cochlear Implant Program.

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