Karen Cook, who worked as a flight attendant, shared her story with BBC News, describing how hyperacusis drastically altered her life. “Sound is everywhere. It’s like air, you can’t escape it. Sound keeps me a prisoner. It has completely erased me.”
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Pain Hyperacusis: What patients say and what audiologists say
By Dr. Kelly Jahn Hyperacusis Research spoke with one of our scientific advisors, Kelly Jahn, AuD, PhD, of The University of Texas at Dallas, who recently published two important papers: One on the variability in hyperacusis knowledge by audiologists and one...
New paper on hyperacusis subtypes from Kelly Jahn
Dr. Kelly Jahn of the University of Texas at Dallas and co-authors have published a new paper in the February 2025 issue of The Journal of Pain entitled "Clinical phenotype and management of sound-induced pain: Insights from adults with pain hyperacusis." Dr. Jahn is...
New Video: Introduction to Hyperacusis Research
"An icepick or razor scraping their ear canal." Kelly Jahn, PhD, and Megan Beers Wood, PhD, discuss their work in our new fundraising video. Kelly notes that, in her survey, every single patient reported "a lack of empathy and support" from people in their lives and...