prof linda luxon
Research
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- Prof
- Linda
- Maitland
- Luxon
- Prof Linda Luxon
- Tel: 020 7915 1590
- Ex: 020 7813 8107
- Fax: 020 7915 1621
- l.luxon@ucl.ac.uk
- Website
- https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/images/profile/LMLUX37.jpg
- 2010-09-01
- 1478
- Great Ormond street Hospital
- London
- WC1N 3JH
- HONEME
- 2010-09-01
- 1
- Emeritus Professor of Audiological Medicine
- HP
- The Ear Institute
- FBRS
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
- 2010-09-01
Research Summary
My main research interest is genetic hearing loss and together with colleagues within UCL we have just completed the National Collaborative Usher Study supported by Sense and funded by the Community Fund. Previously, I have researched autosomal recessive and X-linked hearing loss and Pendred Syndrome. My research with a number of colleagues in UK and abroad has also focussed on newborn hearing screening in the developing world (Nigeria), animal immunohistochemistry in autoimmune inner ear disease, auditory processing in neurological disease, novel vestibular rehabilitation strategies e.g. virtual reality and new diagnostic vestibular techniques eg vestibular evoked myogenic potentials.
I have authored more than 120 peer reviewed research papers, chapters in textbooks, and am an Editor of the “Textbook of Audiological Medicine” and a Co-Editor of Scott Brown’s: “Otolaryngology, a Handbook of Vestibular Rehabilitation and Noise and its Effects” - both of which won the George Davey Howells Prize of the University of London.
- 1691
- Audiological Medicine
Mutations in the USH1C gene associated with sector retinitis pigmentosa and hearing loss.
Ronald Hinchcliffe Obituary
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
Computer-based auditory training (CBAT): benefits for children with language- and reading-related learning difficulties.
Evaluation of musical skills in children with a diagnosis of an auditory processing disorder.
Alteration in auditory function during the ovarian cycle.
Nonsense mutation in TMEM126A causing autosomal recessive optic atrophy and auditory neuropathy.
Update on Usher syndrome
Vertigo and imbalance
Biography
My career started in General Internal Medicine and I then trained in Neurology at the Middlesex and National Hospitals in London. I was appointed as a Consultant in Neuro-otology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 1980 and in 1992 became Professor of Audiovestibular Medicine at the University of London,based at UCL. I came to the UCL Ear Institute in August 2008 to lead academic Audiovestibular Medicine, which remains a relatively new specialty and the EI unit is the sole academic unit in the UK. I am the Director of the UCL MSc programme in Audiovestibular Medicine and supervisor to a number of PhD, MD and post-doctoral students across a range of topics including genetic, autoimmune and noise induced hearing loss, paediatric vestibular disorders, novel vestibular rehabilitation, auditory electrophysiology, efferent auditory dysfunction and auditory processing. Alongside my academic and research interests, I also enjoy a busy clinical practice, with particular interests in vestibular diagnosis and rehabilitation and central auditory processing.
- Ageing
- Anxiety
- Ataxias
- Audiovestibular medicine
- Auditory
- Auditory processing
- Behaviour
- Behavioural analysis
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Brain
- Brain tumours in adults
- Brain tumours in children
- Cerebellum
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
- Cochlea
- Collagen-vascular disease
- Deafness
- Development
- Electrophysiological recording techniques
- Electrophysiology
- Epidemiology
- Friederich's ataxia
- Gait and balance disorders
- Gene expression
- Genetic screens
- Headache
- Hearing
- Hearing and balance
- Ischaemic stroke
- Lyme disease
- Migraine
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuroanatomical approaches
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurophysiology
- Neurosyphilis
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Plasticity
- Rehabilitation
- Spinocerebellar atrophy
- Stroke
- Transient ischaemic attack
- Vertigo and vestibular disorders
- Virtual reality
- SWIRZ95
- prof sheila wirz
- FVARG91
- prof faraneh vargha-khadem
- MAKBI93
- dr maria bitner-glindzicz
- DKSWA43
- dr david swapp
- ARWEB82
- dr andrew webster
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