Centanni GAPP Lab

I know we’ve been quiet lately, but we’ve been busy cooking up some exciting new vagus nerve stimulation studies!

First up- we are now recruiting for a study investigating non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for adults with age related hearing loss and difficulty hearing in noise. Please share with folks and reach out if you have questions or are interested!

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Dr Centanni was honored to be invited to close out an amazing symposium on white matter tracts, led by two fantastic early career women scientists. What a beautiful place to share and think about science!

Exciting to see our work highlighted! Can’t wait to share the results of our ongoing work in new populations :)

Vagus nerve stimulation is touted as a potential treatment for a wide range of conditions from inflammatory bowel disease to autism spectrum disorder. But does it really work? MBI researchers weigh in.

“I would never say that an approach is magical or a panacea, but I do see promise in vagus nerve stimulation for its ability to help with a lot of different things,” said Dr. Tracy Centanni.

Learn more: bit.ly/3FTsEkm

Congratulations to lab PhD student, Delaney Kelemen, on the publication of her first first-author paper in JSLHR! She found that young adults with dyslexia performed worse than their typically developing peers on both simple and complex pitch perception tasks, though musical experiences were linked to improved performance. Her findings suggest that deficits in simple pitch discrimination may interfere with complex auditory category learning, contributing to speech sound categorization challenges in dyslexia. See the full paper here:

Complex Pitch Perception Deficits in Dyslexia Persist Regardless of Previous Musical Experiences Purpose: Pitch perception is important for speech sound learning, and reading acquisition requires integration of speech sounds and written lette...