Explore vibrotactile sensation while making or experiencing music.Prepare high quality spectrograms for use in your theoretical analysis papers, allowing for quantitative and qualitative comparisons of your performances.
Playfully explore the sound of your voice or instrument through advanced, real-time, acoustic analysis.What can we do? The VSAL Center offers tools and technology to: We welcome all NEC musicians regardless of area of study or musical tradition. This can take the form of simply exploring the sound of your instrument with real time spectrography, or students may immerse themselves in more advanced qualitative and quantitative mentored research projects. Between these extremes lie countless applications to deepen and bring detail to your understanding of the world of sound. The Voice and Sound Analysis Laboratory & Center offers students at NEC the chance to investigate the how and what of sound in a supportive, hands-on environment. While much of this process is ephemeral, we have the ability to explore how music and music performance is embodied and experienced. Musicians call on their bodies to create sound and meaning through performance. How does my instrument create meaning with sound?.How can sound travel in air, through computers, and over the internet?.Voice and Sound Analysis Laboratory (VSAL)Ĭome and explore how you make and experience music.Reporting a Student Concern or Incident.Veterans Educational Benefits Information.Implanting MSCs into the opening muscles also showed enhanced improvement, up to 83% of normal. “Implanting MSCs into the vocal cord closing muscles improves that functional recovery to 128% of baseline. “In control animals, without any stem cells, nerve function typically recovers to about 60% of baseline,” says Dr. In spite of that some progress has been made in documenting the levels of recovered function in both control and experimental animals. The desired outcome is restoration of nerve function, but nerves grow slowly, so it takes several months to know whether or not an intervention has helped. These cells are cultured to a suitable volume over 6-8 weeks and then implanted into the laryngeal muscle of interest, the primary muscle that either opens or closes the vocal cord.Īfter a few months of healing, strength of the laryngeal muscles is measured again and compared with the baseline measure. At the same time, a small muscle sample is collected from which some MSCs can be isolated. They measure normal baseline (pre-treatment) muscle strength in the animal, then cut and repair the laryngeal nerve. The experimental procedure is straightforward. His lab is now testing the use of muscle stem cells in an animal model of laryngeal nerve injury. Paniello, adult muscle stem cells (MSCs), implanted into a muscle that has lost its nerve, can improve muscle function, in part by regrowth of the nerve for that muscle. “Our research seeks to find new and better ways to treat paralyzed vocal cords.”Īccording to Dr. “Although we have many treatment options for these problems, none of these options currently restore normal vocal cord function,” says Randal Paniello, MD, professor of head and neck surgery.
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