The delightfully delicious recipes are truly from the heart and submitted by our Students, Faculty and Administrative Staff. All proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will support student participation and attendance at professional conferences. The Communicating with Food index includes:
The CDS Department will sponsor a conference entitled "Respiratory Muscle Strength Training: Application and Interpretation" at Classics V Restaurant Amherst, NY on October 16, 2009. Last day to register is September 25, 2009. Email cdsrosie@buffalo.edu for more information. The brochure for the conference can be downloaded here.
OPEN HOUSE is this Friday, February 27th in the Lippschutz Room. The event begins promptly at 1:00PM but we are asking the Faculty to be present between 12:00PM and 12:30PM to meet and greet our guests.
Last summer, the faculty in the Center for Hearing and Deafness and the CDS Speech and Hearing Clinic were visited by Dr. Jerome Groopman, a medical and science writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of “How Doctors Think.” Dr. Groopman like many other people suffers from tinnitus. It was his hope that after visiting our university (which is one of the major clinical and research centers for the evaluation and study of tinnitus) that he would find answers as to what tinnitus is and how to treat it. Dr. Groopman met with Dr. Christina Stocking for a full tinnitus evaluation. Afterwards he spoke with Dr. Richard Salvi, Director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness, about positron emission brain imaging studies conducted with patients that identified regions of the brain associated with the phantom sound of tinnitus and the “neural signature” of tinnitus. Researchers in CDS are conducting neurophysiological and neuroanatomical studies in animals to identify the biological basis of tinnitus. An important aspect of these studies has been the development of animal models with tinnitus. Dr. Edward Lobarinas demonstrated how rats are behaviorally trained to “tell” the researchers when they hear the phantom sound of tinnitus resulting from noise exposure or ototoxic drugs. After Dr. Groopman’s visit and many hours of study, he wrote an article discussing the research on tinnitus being carried out at the University at Buffalo. Groopman’s article which highlights work being conduced at UB was published in the February 2009 issue of the New Yorker. This article not only explains what tinnitus is, but it pays tribute to clinical and basic research work being conducted by faculty in CDS. To view the article please click here. Image borrowed from the New Yorker Magazine.
Thursday, February 26 – 7:00 p.m.
UB, Main Street Campus, 144 Farber Hall
Featured Talk: "Brain Imaging Studies of Tinnitus and Hyperacusis”
To be presented by Jennifer R. Melcher, Ph.D. For more information please click on the 'read more' button.
Pre-dissertation research project, enttitled, "Effect of Enriched and Deprived Sound Environment on Recovery of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss" by Chiemi Tanaka
Gretchen Swartzenberg is a clinical assistant professor and supervisor in our department. In 2002, Gretchen established UB Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic’s Social Language Program for Children with Asperger’s and Autism. She mainly works with children and adults who have been diagnosed with pragmatic disorders, high functioning autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and non-verbal learning disabilities. The individual and group services focus on the development of communication skills, particularly in the area of pragmatic language. The therapy largely focuses on the use of appropriate interaction skills in home, social, and academic situations and has an emphasis on peer interactions. The group setting is used to provide numerous opportunities for role play and practice of targeted interaction skills for the enhancement of language. During the summer an intensive program is offered four days a week. Additionally, Gretchen has been involved with a young adult group that was just started in 2007. Therapy sessions for young adults focus on conversational and friendship skills, job search/interviewing skills, as well as dating skills. For more information on these programs, please contact Gretchen at gas1@buffalo.edu.
