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Sleep and Phantom Sounds: Investigating tinnitus in the sleep ferret
Phenotype Magazine article on page 9
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Linus Milinski
Postgraduate student
Phantom percepts and sleep
A persistent noise; an ongoing hissing or ringing – this is what tinnitus can feel like.
Tinnitus is a phantom sound generated by the brain without any external source. Yet it remains unclear how natural variations in brain activity, such as between wakefulness and sleep, are interacting with internally generated percepts.
I am investigating the interplay between sleep and tinnitus by combining long-term electrophysiological recordings with behavioural paradigms. My research also addresses the effect of non-pathological waking experience on sleep regulation.
Biography
I am a doctoral student working with Victoria Bajo-Lorenzana, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Fernando Nodal. I obtained a BSc. in Biology with a focus on neuroscience at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany. In my MSc. project in the group of Livia de Hoz at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine I investigated the role of the inferior colliculus in interpreting meaningful stimuli during sleep.
I am also a science writer with articles contributed to The Oxford Scientist, The Oxford Student, Phenotype Magazine and Oxford Scholastica Academy. I was editor for the Oxford Scientist and produced the Frontiers of Science print issue. I am currently editor for research.careers.org.