PhD
Auditory Neuroscience Research Lead

HEARING THERAPEUTICS

Dr Kristin Barry completed her PhD at the Auditory Laboratory at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2019 under Emeritus Professor Don Robertson and Assoc/Professor Helmy Mulders. Her research focus was on preclinical models of hearing loss and tinnitus, specifically how brain areas not classically thought to be related to hearing might be involved in generating tinnitus.

After her PhD, she then took up a position of Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. In 2021, she returned to Western Australia and took up the position of Research Fellow at UWA to continue her research in auditory neuroscience and collaborating with Dr Filippo Valente on Ear Science’s Cleardrum. Dr Barry’s expertise lies in electrophysiology, behavioural neuroscience, calcium imaging and translational animal models.

Areas of research

• Hearing loss & cognition
• Tinnitus
• Translational preclinical models

Selected publications

Zimdahl JW, Thomas H, Bolland SJ, Leggett K, Barry KM, Rodger J, Mulders WHAM. Excitatory Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Over Prefrontal Cortex in a Guinea Pig Model Ameliorates Tinnitus. Front Neurosci. 2021 Jul 22;15:693935. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.693935. PMID: 34366777; PMCID: PMC8339289. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34366777/

Barry KM, Robertson D, Mulders WHAM. Changes in Prefrontal Cortex-Thalamic Circuitry after Acoustic Trauma. Biomedicines. 2021 Jan 14;9(1):77. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines9010077. PMID: 33466899; PMCID: PMC7829915. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33466899/

Barry KM, Robertson D, Mulders WHAM. Changes in auditory thalamus neural firing patterns after acoustic trauma in rats. Hear Res. 2019 Aug;379:89-97. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2019.05.001. Epub 2019 May 4. PMID: 31108284. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31108284/

Barry KM, Robertson D, Mulders WHAM. Medial geniculate neurons show diverse effects in response to electrical stimulation of prefrontal cortex. Hear Res. 2017 Sep;353:204-212. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.07.002. Epub 2017 Jul 8. PMID: 28709732. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28709732/

Mulders WH, Barry KM, Robertson D. Effects of furosemide on cochlear neural activity, central hyperactivity and behavioural tinnitus after cochlear trauma in guinea pig. PLoS One. 2014 May 16;9(5):e97948. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097948. PMID: 24835470; PMCID: PMC4023991. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24835470/

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