THE NATIONAL TEMPORAL BONE, HEARING, AND BALANCE PATHOLOGY RESOURCE REGISTRY

The National Temporal Bone, Hearing, and Balance Pathology Resource Re gistry has been established with funding provided by the National Inst itute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National In stitutes of Health. The registry is meant to serve as a national resou rce for researchers and the public to stimulate and facilitate human o topathologic research. It will maintain a computerized database of cur rently active and inactive temporal bone and auditory brain-stem colle ctions throughout the United States. In addition, it will encourage hu man temporal bone research by disseminating pertinent information, dev eloping and fostering temporal bone professional educational activitie s, implementing a national temporal bone acquisition network, and enco uraging investigative collaborations in the study of the human tempora l bone and brain structures. It will also identify otopathologic colle ctions at risk of being discarded or lost and will develop mechanisms and strategies to conserve them.