Subject: post-doc position in neurophysiology of tinnitus From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Ku=B6mierek?= <pawel.kusmierek@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:38:24 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Open Postdoctoral Position in the Neurophysiology of Tinnitus Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC A postdoctoral position is available to conduct neurophysiological and neuroanatomical research concerning tinnitus, a widespread auditory disorder that can be highly debilitating. The proposed studies, funded by a grant from the Skirball Foundation, will test the hypothesis that tinnitus is a disorder that involves not only a loss of hearing but also a compromised gating system in the thalamus and ventral striatum. Candidates should have a background in a neuroscience-related field as well as experience in microelectrode recordings from the auditory system of mammals and/or anatomical tract tracing. Additional experience with neuropharmacological techniques would be a plus. The studies will be performed in rats and rhesus monkeys. Full funding is available for one year beginning immediately with the potential to extend to a second year. Salary is commensurate with experience. Other tinnitus projects ongoing in parallel include the measurement of functional and/or anatomical changes in the brain of human tinnitus patients using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as development of quantitative behavioral assessments of tinnitus. Further projects in the lab include neurophysiological, neuroanatomical and neuroimaging studies of Nonprimary Auditory Cortex in Macaques, funded by NIH; studies on the Neural Bases of Speech and Music Perception, funded by NSF; and work on Compensatory Plasticity in the Early Blind. For more information about the lab, please visit our website at http://linc.georgetown.edu/ Interested candidates should contact the Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057 email: rauscheckerlab@xxxxxxxx phone: +1 (202) 687-8842