Nov 7, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, Patient Stories
Photo credit: Vítor Belanciano by João Øbo · Rågeleje, Denmark João Øbo recounts his solitary journey through recurrent periods of unremitting torment and invasive noise in a world where even silence is loud. · For more than six years, I have lived with chronic...
Oct 10, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, News Updates, Research News
The recipient of our next Hyperacusis Research research grant is Bshara Awwad, Ph.D.! Dr. Awwad, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Polley Lab for Auditory Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, will be researching auditory-limbic circuit dynamics as therapeutic targets in...
Sep 20, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured, News Updates, Research News
Update following the webinar: HHF has published a summary of the webinar in their Winter 2026 magazine, read it here Please join us on Tuesday, October 21, at 7:00 pm Eastern Time / 4:00 pm Pacific Time for our Research Webinar, which will be held via Zoom. There is...
Jun 22, 2025 | All Articles, Blog, Featured
Reprinted with permission from The Mighty. 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...
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...
