Scientific Advisory Board
The purpose of the Misophonia Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is to guide the future direction of the program and ensure that the program activities remain aligned with the needs of the scientific field. The inaugural SAB was selected with the intention of reflecting the diversity of disciplines, ideas and scientific approaches necessary to advance scientific breakthroughs for misophonia.
DR. JULIA CAMPBELL
University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the PI of the Central Sensory Processes Laboratory. She is a licensed audiologist, received her Doctorate of Audiology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds a triple PhD from the same institution in the following fields: Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Behavioral Neuroscience; and Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr. Campbell utilizes high-density EEG methodology to study cortical plasticity of the auditory and visual systems across the lifespan, both in typical and clinical populations. She is currently developing objective clinical measures for use in central auditory disorders such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and tinnitus.
DR. RAMNARAYAN RAMACHANDRAN
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Ramachandran is an Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has extensive experience studying the relationship between brain activity and behavior, as well as in noise-induced hearing loss, particularly from the neurophysiological perspective. Since completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Ramachandran has been conducting research to further refine the understanding of the neural pathways, circuitry, and signaling that underlie hearing-related functions in noisy environments for the past two decades. Utilizing this research as a baseline, the research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center continues to explore neural responses to noise-induced hearing loss, better understanding the discrepancies between normal and hearing-impaired subjects in encoding sound stimuli. For his studies, he primarily uses behavioral, neurophysiological, and non-invasive audiological methods, as well as computer modeling.
Dr. Zach Rosenthal
Duke University
Dr. Zach Rosenthal is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation (CMER), leading a team conducting research, providing education, and developing clinical care pathways for Misophonia. He also directs the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program and is Co-Chief Psychologist for the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. In addition to research, administrative duties, and clinical practice, Dr. Rosenthal enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate students, mentoring trainees at all levels, and training community clinicians in best practices using cognitive behavioral therapies for adults.
DR. SUSAN SWEDO
PANDAS Network
Dr. Swedo, former Chief of Pediatrics and Developmental Neuroscience at the NIMH, is the Chief Science Officer at PANDAS Physicians Network. She earned her MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and completed pediatrics residency at the Children’s Memorial Hospital at Northwestern University. Her extensive research has focused on childhood obsessive-compulsive disorders, completed primarily during her time in the Child Psychiatry branch of the NIMH. Her novel research has led to the development of new, innovative treatments and therapies. Dr. Swedo has served on many Scientific Advisory Boards for pediatric disorders, and she was a member of the DSM5 task force. Her experience in the field has provided her intimate knowledge of the inner workings of federal funding, pediatric disorders, clinical trials, psychiatric research, and what is necessary to get a disorder classified in the DSM.
Dr. Romke Rouw
Faculty, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Brian and Cognition Programme Group, University of Amsterdam
Dr. Rouw began her career studying psychology at University of Amsterdam, where she became fascinated by the question of why objective stimuli in the outside world are often such poor predictors of what happens in the rich, internal, mental world of a particular individual. This fascination was strengthened during a one-year visit to Kosslyn’s lab, studying visual mental imagery, and her Ph.D. work on configural processing of faces at Tilburg University. After obtaining her Ph.D., she returned to the University of Amsterdam as a faculty member. To unravel the connection between highly subjective sensations and behavioral and neurological mechanisms, her lab employs a broad range of techniques (e.g., in-lab behavioral experiments, large online studies, psychophysics, and various neuroimaging techniques). She regularly presents to non-academic audiences which is both fun and allows her to raise public awareness for unusual responses to stimuli as part of a ‘normal’ condition. 