Richard J. Salvi is the co-founder and director of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Hearing and Deafness, one of the country’s foremost hearing research groups. His lab focuses on multiple areas in the field of hearing and deafness.Salvi was among the first researchers to use brain imaging ...
Richard J. Salvi is the co-founder and director of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Hearing and Deafness, one of the country’s foremost hearing research groups. His lab focuses on multiple areas in the field of hearing and deafness.Salvi was among the first researchers to use brain imaging techniques such as PET scans and Functional MRI studies to help identify which regions of the brain were involved with tinnitus. He is an expert on the plasticity of the central auditory system, the effect of sensory hair cell loss on auditory function, noise-induced hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis and auditory perception.He serves on numerous national and international grant review panels and the editorial board of many prestigious journals.