Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology - CALL FOR PAPERS: Submit your research to one of JARO’s new Topical Collections
These new Topical Collections offer a variety of topics - please see below for further details.
Since its inception, ARO has considered education as a top priority. In the year 2023, ARO took a significant step forward by introducing an Online Seminar Series (this opens in a new tab), aimed to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and research findings from various ARO members. The primary objective of this Topical Issue is to offer our speakers to contribute with reviews of the topics discussed during their presentations, ensuring the lasting impact of their work.
Hearing loss, considered a disease of old age, sadly occurs not uncommonly in children and young adults. Hearing loss thus affects everyone, from cradle to grave, and thus we have chosen ‘A life course perspective on hearing loss: developmental origins and beyond’ as the theme of one of our 2023 Topical Collection. The issue, prompted by the alarming reports from the WHO, will cover the evolution and the epidemic of silence, racial and sex differences in the burden of hearing loss, noise exposure and environmental agents as risk factors for hearing loss, the impact of early-life factors on hearing loss (e.g. exposures during childhood), and cellular senescence and aging effects in hearing loss in animal models and humans. This collection will also provide an understanding of the consequences of hearing loss (e.g., dementia) and the impact on life quality, and how rehabilitation (with hearing aids or cochlear implants) can address these issues. This topical collection invites expert hearing researchers in the fields of epidemiology, rodent models, human population and clinical research to contribute with original research, technical advances and brief reports. These papers will be published alongside a collection of invited state of the art review articles. Through a collection of articles, we aim to provide the latest evidence relevant to policy makers and health care systems.
Spiral ganglion neurons play an important role in the coding of auditory information. This topical collection aims to gather an ensemble of knowledge covering fundamental knowledge on their diversification, their electrophysiology, cochlear synaptopathy in animals and humans, measures of their function and consequences of their dysfunction in the midbrain, their generation in vitro or their reprogramming in vivo, and therapeutic means for restoring their function (e.g., stem cells, gene therapy). We invite experts in these various fields to contribute with original research, technical advances and brief reports. These papers will be published alongside a collection of invited state of the art review articles. We aim to promote knowledge on the auditory neurons by creating a collection of articles summarizing novel findings of preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies, as well as human, of either fundamental or translational relevance.
Hearing therapeutics - from bench to bedside (this opens in a new tab)
Hearing aids and cochlear implants have populated the rehabilitation landscape for decades, but new opportunities arise yet facing translational and safety challenges. This topical collection aims to gather knowledge from RCTs and the reflections from past failures and successes, whether in pharmacology or gene therapy in hearing prevention or treatment. This topical collection invites expert clinicians and corporate researchers in the fields of hearing therapeutics to contribute with original research, technical advances, reviews, brief reports and opinions. Through a collection of articles, we aim to provide the latest knowledge to propel hearing therapeutics to patients.
On the toxic insults to the ear - ototoxicity from animals to humans (this opens in a new tab)
This topical collection aims to gather the latest knowledge on otoxicity, from pre-clinical research on in-vitro systems, zebrafish and rodents, to children and adults. For this, experts on all specialties in otolaryngology ranging from pharmacotoxicology, epidemiology, genetics, and clinical management, are invited to share their views and latest research on this critical topic. We encourage submissions of original research, technical advances and brief reports within the auditory field. These papers will be published alongside a collection of invited state of the art review articles. The evidence provided in this topical collection may serve researchers and clinicians to guide on the future health care improvements.
The cochlear powerhouse revisited: spotlight on the stria vascularis (this opens in a new tab)
This topical collection is a timely gathering of articles on a growing research field within the auditory arena: the stria vascularis. Being the powerhouse of the cochlea, the stria vascularis is a small yet important component of the cochlea, involved in the maintenance of potassium levels in the endolymph and the end-cochlear potential. Its critical role in human hearing is progressively being evidenced. Being a target of noise, ototoxic medications, but also an immune reservoir, it is becoming an increasingly interesting therapeutic target, either by medications or gene therapy. As its implication in hearing loss is becoming increasingly recognized and it is thus time to shed light on its function, and how its disruption by noise, ototoxicity, and aging contributes to the decline of the hearing abilities. This topical collection invites expert auditory researchers on the labyrinth-blood-barrier, the immune and the vascular system, genetics and gene therapy, ion channels and stria function, mouse models and human diseases such as Menière’s disease to contribute with original research, technical advances and brief reports. These papers will be published alongside a collection of invited state of the art review articles. We aim to reinforce the focus on the stria vascularis by creating a collection of articles summarizing novel findings of preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies, as well as human, of either fundamental or translational relevance.
For more information about the submission process, please read the submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab).