Vijaya Prakash KRISHNAN Krishnan Muthaiah

Dr. Muthaiah is an Assistant professor at University of Buffalo, NY. His Brain Plasticity and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory focus on how neurotrauma & occupational hazards (especially noise exposure) affects inner ear and respective higher centers of brain thereby focusing on auditory and vestibular neurodegeneration using both pre-clinical animal models and human subjects. He completed his post-doctoral training (on occupational noise/heavy metal toxicity) at Center for Hearing and Deafness, University at Buffalo and Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University. Occupational hazards or traumatic insults such as acoustic trauma, ischemia or toxic chemicals damages the inners ear (cochlea and vestibular end organs) resulting in clinical manifestations such as vestibular disorders, dizziness, vertigo, hearing loss etc. Dr. Muthaiah seeks to explore the plastic changes and mechanism of neurodegeneration at peripheral and cortical level, how it impairs the inf