The NIH Almanac - Historical Data
Recent Photos from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)2008 PhotosIn February 2008, NIDCD
researchers reported that they'd used functional MRI to
study the brains of musicians playing improvised jazz. The images
revealed that a large brain region involved in monitoring one's
performance shuts down during creative improvisation, while a
small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and
behaviors is highly activated. (Image courtesy of Charles J.
Limb and Allen R. Braun, NIDCD.)
In October 2008, NIDCD launched
a new campaign to protect the hearing of tweens. A new
web site offers parents resources to help tweens avoid hearing
loss from noise.
NIDCD Director Dr. James
Battey, Jr., delivered opening remarks at the Institute's anniversary
symposium highlighting 20 years of research accomplishments on
October 23, 2008. (Photo by Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts and
Photography Branch)
Dr. Richard Axel, university
professor and investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Columbia University, spoke on "Internal Representations
of the Olfactory World" at the NIDCD 20th
Anniversary Symposium. Dr. Axel is a recipient of the 2004
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking
research on the sense of smell. (Photo by Bill Branson, NIH Medical
Arts and Photography Branch)
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