Jun 22, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured
Reprinted with permission. Dear Audiologist: I know you think the squeaky door in your office is no big deal. I would have thought so too, until the rock concert that wrecked my ears and caused my hyperacusis. I don’t know how to make you understand the ear pain that...
Jun 19, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured
Marsha Johnson, Au.D., an audiologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, opened the Oregon Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Treatment Clinic in 1997. Here, Dr. Johnson — one of the first clinicians to recognize pain hyperacusis as distinct from loudness hyperacusis —...
Apr 12, 2025 | Blog, Featured, News Updates, Patient Stories
Breanne Woods, with some help from Hyperacusis Central, has created the Hyperacusis Wall of Remembrance, dedicated to those whose lives were altered by hyperacusis, and who are no longer with us. One of those is our beloved founder, Bryan Pollard, who died nearly...
Mar 11, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, News Updates, Research News
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...
Jan 12, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, News Updates, Research News
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.”...
Nov 5, 2024 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, News Updates
“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...