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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5747
Email
paul.smith@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor (Personal Chair)
Department
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Qualifications
BA(Hons) PhD (Syd) GradDipApplStat MApplStat(Hons) (Massey) DSc (Otago) AStat (SSAI) CStat FRSS (RSS, UK)
Research summary
Vestibular and Auditory Neuroscience, Biostatistics
Teaching
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Neuroscience
  • Biostatistics
Memberships
  • HRC Standing Committee on Therapeutic Trials (SCOTT)
  • Scientific Advisory Committee of the American Tinnitus Association (ATA)
  • PI with Eisdell Moore Centre for Hearing and Balance Research, University of Auckland
  • Barany Society, the International Society of Vestibular Physiologists, since 1994

Editorial Boards:

  • Frontiers in Neurology (Neuro-Otology, Associate Editor)
  • Frontiers in Audiology and Otology (Tinnitus)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience (Auditory Cognition)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Auris Nasus Larynx
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Research in Vestibular Science

Research

Interests: vestibular and auditory systems; vestibular dysfunction and tinnitus; effects of vestibular damage on the hippocampus; applications of statistics to pharmacology; biostatistics in general.

My major research interest is in the vestibular and auditory systems and how damage to them can result in plastic changes in the brain. We study the effects of vestibular and auditory damage on the brainstem vestibular and cochlear nuclei, and also on other auditory areas of the CNS such as the inferior colliculus and auditory cortex, and other non-auditory brain regions, especially the hippocampus and striatum.

Additional details

I am an Accredited Statistician (AStat) with the Statistical Society of Australia Inc (SSAI) and a Chartered Statistician (CStat) and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, UK. I am also a member of the NZ Statistical Association (there is no accreditation system in NZ).

Publications

Searchfield, G., Adhia, D., Barde, A., De Ridder, D., Doborjeh, M., Doborjeh, Z., … Smith, P. F., & Zheng, Y. (2024). A scoping review of tinnitus research undertaken by New Zealand researchers: Aotearoa–an international hotspot for tinnitus innovation and collaboration. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2363424. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2024.2363424 Journal - Research Other

Zheng, Y., & Smith, P. F. (2024). Translating animal findings to humans in tinnitus research. In W. Schlee, B. Langguth, D. De Ridder, S. Vanneste, T. Kleinjung & A. R. Møller (Eds.), Textbook of tinnitus. (2nd ed.) (pp. 301-312). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35647-6_24 Chapter in Book - Research

Tan, H. T., Smith, P. F., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Time-dependent effects of acoustic trauma and tinnitus on extracellular levels of amino acids in the inferior colliculus of rats. Hearing Research, 443, 108948. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.108948 Journal - Research Article

Smith, P. F. (2024). Aging of the vestibular system and its relationship to dementia. Current Opinion in Neurology, 37, 83-87. doi: 10.1097/wco.0000000000001231 Journal - Research Other

Smith, P. F. (2023). Interpreting the meaning of changes in hippocampal volume associated with vestibular loss. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17, 1254972. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2023.1254972 Journal - Research Other

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