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Cynthia DarlingtonAssociate Professor Cynthia Darlington co-directs the Vestibular and Auditory Research Group with Professor Paul Smith and Dr Yiwen Zheng. They are researching the functional deficits in the central nervous system that occur following damage to the inner ear. These deficits include balance disorders, loss of gaze holding ability, disruption of hearing including tinnitus, and of surprise to many people, cognitive dysfunction. She pursues questions relating to these disorders in her newly established human testing facility in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. She is also interested in sex differences in brain function. In 2009, the second edition of her book The Female Brain was published by CRC Press.

Find out more about Associate Professor Darlington's research.

Publications

Smith, P. F., Agrawal, Y., & Darlington, C. L. (2019). Sexual dimorphism in vestibular function and dysfunction. Journal of Neurophysiology, 121, 2379-2391. doi: 10.1152/jn.00074.2019

Tranter-Entwistle, I., Dawes, P., Darlington, C. L., Smith, P. F., & Cutfield, N. (2016). Video head impulse in comparison to caloric testing in unilateral vestibular schwannoma. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 136(11), 1110-1114. doi: 10.1080/00016489.2016.1185540

Gliddon, C. M., Zheng, Y., Aitken, P., Stiles, L., Hitier, M., Machado, M.-L., … Smith, P., Darlington, C., & Besnard, S. (2015). Effects of vestibular loss and parabolic flight on cell proliferation in the rat dentate gyrus. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience 45th Annual Meeting. 335.02/T13. SfN. Retrieved from https://www.sfn.org

Zheng, Y., Smithies, H., Aitken, P., Gliddon, C., Stiles, L., Darlington, C. L., & Smith, P. F. (2015). Cell proliferation in the cochlear nucleus following acoustic trauma in rat. Neuroscience, 303, 524-534. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.07.033

Smith, P. F., Darlington, C. L., & Zheng, Y. (2014). The effects of complete vestibular deafferentation on spatial memory and the hippocampus in rat: The Dunedin experience. Multisensory Research, 28(5-6), 461-485. doi: 10.1163/22134808-00002469

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