Kirke, Diana N.
Battistella, Giovanni
Kumar, Veena
Rubien-Thomas, Estee
Choy, Melissa
Rumbach, Anna
Simonyan, Kristina
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC012545)
Article History
First Online: 3 February 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Diana N. Kirke declares that she has no conflict of interest. Diana N. Kirke was supported by a research fellowship grant from the Foundation for Surgery Reg Worcester Research Fellowship Scholarship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.Giovanni Battistella declares that he has no conflict of interest.Veena Kumar declares that she has no conflict of interest.Estee Rubien-Thomas declares that she has no conflict of interest.Melissa Choy declares that she has no conflict of interest.Anna Rumbach declares that she has no conflict of interest.Kristina Simonyan declares that she has no conflict of interest. Kristina Simonyan received grants from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health (R01DC011805, R01DC012434, R01DC007658), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (R01NS088160). Kristina Simonyan serves on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This study was funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health (grant number R01DC012545) to KS. DNK was supported by a research fellowship grant from the Foundation for Surgery Reg Worcester Research Fellowship Scholarship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.