Charles J. Limb, M.D.

Associate Professor - Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music

OFFICE PHONE
410-502-4269

EDUCATION - College
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

EDUCATION - Medical School
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

EDUCATION - Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

EDUCATION - Fellowship
Fellow, Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Otolaryngology

CLINICAL INTERESTS

• Cochlear implantation
• Implantable hearing devices
• Hearing restoration
• Music perception
• Acoustic neuroma
• Cholesteatoma
• Disorders of the skull base

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Functional neuroimaging
• Cochlear implant-mediated sound perception
• Neuroscience of music.

PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL
Johns Hopkins Hospital

NEWS

November 2010 - Watch Dr. Charles Limb's presentation at TEDx MidAtlantic, where he showed the results of what he and his team uncovered when they put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out how the brain works during musical improvisation. The research has deep implications for the understanding of creativity of all kinds.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Limb CJ, Kemeny S, Ortigoza EB, Rouhani S, Braun AR (2006). Left hemispheric lateralization of brain activity during passive rhythm perception in musicians. Anat Rec 288A(4):382-389.

Limb CJ (2006). Structural and functional neural correlates of music perception. Anat Rec 288A(4):435-446.

Limb C., Francis HW, Lustig LR, Niparko JK, and Jammal, H. (2005). Benign positional vertigo after cochlear implantation. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 132(5):741-5.

Niparko, J.K., Mertes J., and Limb, C.J. (2005) Cochlear implants: therapy, outcomes, and education. In: Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 4th ed. Cummings C.W. et al., eds. Philadelphia: Mosby, Inc.

Limb, C.J., Long, D.M., and Niparko, J.K. (2005) Acoustic neuroma after failed radiation therapy: challenges of surgical salvage. Laryngoscope 115(1):93-98.

Limb, C.J. and J.K. Niparko (2005). The acute facial palsies. In: Neurotology, 2nd ed. Jackler and Brackmann, eds. Philadelphia: Mosby, Inc., pp.1230-1257.

Limb, C.J. and J.K. Niparko. The acute facial palsies. In: Neurotology, Jackler and Brackmann eds. In press.

Niparko, J.K., Mertes J., and Limb, C.J. Cochlear implants: therapy, outcomes, and education. In: Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Cummings C.W. et al., eds. In press.

Pai, S.I., Limb, C.J., Nicol, T, Williams, M.F. (2003) Leiomyosarcoma of the auricle. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Mar;128(3):442-4.

Limb, C.J., Lustig L.R., and J.K. Niparko (2003). Infections of the ear: acute and chronic disease. In: Clinical Neurotology,

Lustig, Niparko, Minor, and Zee, eds. London: Taylor and Francis Group, 368 pp.

Limb, C.J. and M. Williams (2002-2003) Hearing Loss. American College of Physicians, Physicians Information and Education Resource. http://pier.acponline.org/index.html?hp

Limb, C.J. and L.R. Lustig (2002) Hearing loss and the invention of the phonograph: the story of Thomas Alva Edison. Otol Neurotol 23:96-101.

Limb C.J., Mabrie D.C., Carey J.P., Minor L.B. (2002) Hemangioma of the external auditory canal. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 126(1):74-75.

Limb C.J., Niparko J.K., Tunkel D.E. (2001) Transtympanic stimulation of the facial nerve to assess nerve integrity in iatrogenic facial nerve paralysis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 124(5):600-602.

Limb, C.J. and D.K. Ryugo (2001) Development of the endbulbs of Held. In: Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research, J. Willott, ed. New York: CRC Press, 225-236.

Limb, C.J. and D.K. Ryugo (2000) Development of primary axosomatic endings in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus of mice. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 1(2):103-119.

Limb, C.J. (2000) Music and cochlear implantation. In: Cochlear Implants, J.K. Niparko et al., eds. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 265-267.

Ryugo, D.K., C.J. Limb, E.E. Redd (2000) Brain plasticity: the impact of the environment on the brain as it relates to heaing and deafness. In: Cochlear Implants, J.K. Niparko et al., eds. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 33-56.

McWhorter, A.J., C.J. Limb, J.K. Niparko (2000) Otologic and skull base emergencies. In: Emergencies of the head and neck, Eisele and McQuone, eds. St. Louis: Mosby, 367-397.

Saada, A.A., C.J. Limb, D. Long, J.K. Niparko (2000) Intracanalicular schwannoma of the facial nerve: a manifestation of neurofibromatosis type 2. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 126(4):547-549.

Lee, M.P., J.D. Ravenel, R.Hu, L.R. Lustig, G. Tomaselli, R.D. Berger, S.A. Brandenburg, T.J. Litzi, T.E. Bunton, C. Limb, H. Francis, M. Gorelikow, H. Gu, K. Washington, P. Argani, J.R. Goldenring, R.J. Coffey, A.P. Feinberg (2000) Targeted disruption of the Kvlqt1 gene causes deafness and gastric hyperplasia in mice. J Clin Invest 106(12):1447-1455.

Heptulla RA, Tamborlane WV, Cavaghan M, Bronson M, Limb C, Ma YZ, Sherwin RS, Caprio S (2000) Augmentation of alimentary insulin secretion despite similar gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP) responses in juvenile obesity. Pediatr Res 47(5):628-33.

Kveton, J.F., C.J. Limb, M.D. Bell (1999) Comparison of optokinetic nystagmus elicited by full vs. partial visual stimulation: diagnostic implications. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 121(1):52-56.

Kieff, D.A., H.D. Curtin, C.J. Limb, J.B. Nadol (1998) A hairy polyp presenting as a middle ear mass in a pediatric patient. Am J Otolaryngol., 19(4):228-231.

Limb, C., W.V. Tamborlane, R.S. Sherwin, R. Pederson, and S. Caprio (1997) Acute incretin response to oral glucose is associated with stimulation of gastric inhibitory polypeptide, not glucagon-like peptide in young subjects. Pediatr Res., 41:364-367.

Caprio, S., L.D. Hyman, C. Limb, S. McCarthy, R. Lange, R.S. Sherwin, G. Shulman, and W.V. Tamborlane (1995) Central adiposity and its metabolic correlates in obese adolescent girls. Am J Physiol. 269:E118-26.

Limb, C.J. and L.B. Holmes (1994) Anencephaly: changes in prenatal detection and birth status, 1972-1990. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 170:1333-1338.