Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Analyze the Impact of Diabetes on Cognition, Language Processing, and Hearing

An interdisciplinary team of investigators is engaged in the analysis of continuous glucose monitoring data of diabetes patients to better understand the moment-by-moment as well as cumulative long-term effects of variations in glucose levels on cognitive, linguistic, and hearing abilities. The project, headed by Brooke Hallowell, associate professor of hearing, speech, and language sciences, and Frank Schwartz, J.O. Watson Endowed Research Chair and professor of endocrinology, entails analysis of large data sets pertaining to behavioral test results and corresponding glucose levels in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. This effort involves faculty members and students across multiple disciplines.