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Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, presented her latest study on environmental factors for developing spasmodic dysphonia, which showed that stressors influencing the sensory feedback from the larynx and upper respiratory tract represent major risk factors and are associated with abnormal cortical...

Congratulations to Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, who has been promoted to Professor of OHNS at Harvard Medical School (HMS).Dr. Simonyan, director of Laryngology Research at Mass Eye and Ear, is world-renowned for her research on complex speech and motor behaviors in healthy individuals and...

Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders focuses on scientific investigations into the diagnosis, evaluation and management of patients with involuntary movement disorders. The journal reviews, illustrates and emphasizes clinical phenomenology as an indispensable tool for diagnosis and application of...

NeurologyToday An artificial intelligence program called DystoniaBoTXNet identified regions of the brain that served as a biomarker of treatment efficacy and distinguished which patients would benefit from botulinum toxin injections. Read the full article here

We are exctied to receive a new NIH grant ( NIDCD/NIH R01DC019353) to develop and test the first brain-computer interface (BCI) for rehabilitation of laryngeal dystonia. We will start inviting patients to participate in this study soon!

Dr. Simonyan's research is highlighted in the Fall 2021 issue of Harvard Otolaryngology Logging in to DystoniaNet: A new deep-learning platform has cracked the code to diagnosing dystonia. “Dystonia has frustrated clinicians and researchers for decades. Without an objective measure of diagnosing the...

Alexis Worthley, BA, won the Outstanding Paper Award and the Travel Award by the American Laryngological Association (ALA) for the presentation: "A separation of innate and learned vocal behaviors defines the symptomatology of spasmodic dysphonia". She delivered her talk at the COSM-ALA meeting on...

Davide Valeriani, PhD, won the People’s Choice Abstract Award for the poster: “Automatic Diagnosis of Spasmodic Dysphonia with Structural MRI and Machine Learning” presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) on June 9-13, 2019, in Rome, Italy.

Sandra Hanekamp won the (PI's) Children's Choice Poster Award for her poster: "The structural connectome of isolated task-specific focal dystonia", which she presented at the annual meeting of the Ogranization for Human Brain Mapping, June 9-13, 2019 in Rome, Italy.

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