“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 from medical providers, too.
Megan — who will be starting her own lab next year — discusses cochlear neurons that respond to pain, not to sound.
The video ends with the BBC’s piece on Karen Cook, a former flight attendant in England, who suffers from severe pain hyperacusis. “It’s completely erased me,” Karen says. “Everything that we knew as a family has changed,” says her husband, Nick.
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