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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

 
an institute of the national institutes of health that conducts and supports biomedical research and research training on normal mechanisms as well as diseases and disorders of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) News Release "Study Provides Evidence That Autism Affects Functioning of Entire Brain", Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Study Provides Evidence That Autism Affects Functioning of Entire Brain
"The exciting thing here is that it's now possible to begin picking apart language, one of the highest-order cognitive functions, one gene at a time," comments geneticist Dennis Drayna of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Rockville, Md.
Family gives genetic clue to language
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) News Release "Shared Ancestor to Humans, Present-day Non-human Primates May Be Linchpin in the Evolution of Language", Sunday, July 23, 2006
Shared Ancestor to Humans, Present-day Non-human Primates May Be Linchpin in the Evolution of Language
Friedman of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Md.
Genes of silence: scientists track down a slew of mutated genes that cause deafness
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) News Release "Protein Tied to Usher Syndrome May Be Hearing's ‘Missing Link’", Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Protein Tied to Usher Syndrome May Be Hearing's ‘Missing Link’
Sklare, Hearing and Balance/Vestibular Sciences Branch, Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 400C, MSC 7180, Bethesda, MD 20892-7180 USA, 301-496-1804, fax: 301-402-6251, e-mail: daniel_sklare@nih.gov; Richard W.
Earth-Based Research Relevant to the Space Environment
"The goal is to develop an early marker or something that could [change] along with the disease;' explains Jack Pearl of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Md.
Alzheimer's disease: does the nose know?
Sklare, Hearing and Balance/Vestibular Sciences Branch, Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 400C, MSC7180, Bethesda, MD 20892-7180 USA, 301-496-1804, fax: 301-402-6251, e-mail; daniel_sklare@nih.gov; Richard W.
Fellowships, Grants, & Awards
Waardenburg's syndrome accounts for 2 to 3 percent of the 1 million cases of congenital deafness in the United States, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Md.
Hearing gene; sounding out the heredity of deafness
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