Research at SIU SOM
 
 
Research Profile - Carol Bauer  
   
Department/Division:     Email Address:
Surgery/Otolaryngology cbauer@siumed.edu
Office Location:     Location of Laboratory:
Saint John's Hospital Pavilion
Springfield
  801 N. Rutledge, rm 3205
Office Phone Number:     Laboratory Phone Number:
217-545-5140     217-545-6583
Willing to mentor medical students and / or residents? Yes
Research Interests: Tinnitus, cochlea histology, hearing loss
Techniques and Methodologies: behavioral testing for tinnitus
cochlear embedding in plastic for cell counts, transmission electron microscopy, auditory brainstem response testing, multiprobe single-unit recording from auditory brainstem, radiofrequency lesioning. 

Equipment:

microscopes, phase contrast microscope, behavioral testing chambers.
Current Collaborators:
Thomas J. Brozoski, PhD
Donald Caspary, PhD
Jeremy TUrner, PhD
Current and Pending Awards:

Current:
Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Tinnitus Generation (PI; RO1 NIDCD);

Testing efficacy of novel compounds on behavioral evidence of tinnitus (PI; AMGEN);

The effect of Gabapentin on the sensation and impact of tinnitus
(PI; Tinnitus Research Consortium)

Publications:    

Brozoski TJ, Bauer CA, Caspary DM. Elevated fusiform cell activity in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of chinchillas with psychophysical evidence of tinnitus. Journal of Neuroscience (2002) 22: 2383-2390.

Bauer CA, Brozoski TJ. Assessing tinnitus and prospective tinnitus therapeutics using a psychophysical animal model. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2: (2001) 54-64.

Bauer CA, Brozoski TJ, Holder TM, Caspary DM. Effects of chronic salicylate on GABAergic activity in rat inferior colliculus. Hearing Research (2000) 147:175-182.

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