Dr. Finlayson joined the faculty on July 1,1999, as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Finlayson received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Ottawa (1987), and furthered his training in neuroscience as an IVIRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Illinois University and the University of British Columbia. As an Assistant Professor in the Rotary Hearing Center (University of British Columbia, 1992-1999), Dr. Finlayson was a British Columbia Health Research Scholar.
The long-term goal of Dr. Finlayson's research lab is to determine how the neurophysiology of auditory neurons in the brain may be affected in individuals, such as the elderly and language learning impaired children, who have difficulty understanding speech. Current research is investigating cellular mechanisms, such as second messenger regulation of ionic conductance, which affect the excitability of auditory neurons and their processing of acoustic information. The effects of drugs on the physiology of auditory neurons in the rat brainstem and midbrain, which integrate information from both ears, are investigated in tissue slices, and in single unit responses to acoustic stimulation. These studies aim to demonstrate what temporal processing mechanisms are affected in individuals with hearing problems.
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