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To understand tinnitus and its strange link to touch sensations, Shore and her research team have conducted a series of studies in guinea pigs, measuring nerve activity in a part of the brain called the dorsal cochlear nucleus that processes auditory and other signals. In normal hearing, the dorsal cochlear nucleus is the first stop in the brain for sound signals arriving from the ear via the auditory nerve. The part of the system that provides sensations from the face and head, called the trigeminal system, brings signals to the cochlear nucleus that help us hear and speak. In addition to Shore and Koehler, Mark Oldakowski, a U-M research associate at the time of the study, Sana Syed, then a U-M student in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and Larry F. More Cosmetic Dentistry

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