Professor of Audiology
Missouri State University
Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri
Dr. Kaf's, MD & MSc (Egypt), PhD, research expertise is diagnostics mainly using auditory evoked potentials. Her AEP research studies aimed to determine their accuracy in estimating ABR and ASSR thresholds using different stimuli and commercial equipment, and to assess physiological neural adaptation and distinguish pathological neural adaptation in Ménière’s disease and cochlear synaptopathy using simultaneous recording of electrocochleography (ECochG) and ABR measures to fast stimulus rates using the continuous loop averaging deconvolution (CLAD) technique. Dr. Kaf also study otoacoustic suppression and association between hyperacusis and tinnitus in children with ASD. Currently, her research involves investigations of the effects of clinical migraine on the auditory system aand preclinical chronic migraine and temporomandibular joint diseases (TMD) models on rat’s brainstem transmission and hearing sensitivity using toneburst ABR recording.
Dr. Kaf received several awards including, the 2009 Margo Skinner Award, Missouri State University T Excellence Awards in both Teaching and Research.
RP311 - Audiological Central Gain and Brainstem Dysfunction in Episodic and Chronic Migraine
Friday, April 19, 2024
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.