Dr. Darrow is a M.I.T. and Harvard Medical School trained Neuroscientist, Clinical Audiologist, Certified Dementia Prevention Educator, Certified Dementia Practitioner and Nationally Certified Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer. He is a former Clinical Professor at Northeastern University and is currently a tenured professor at Worcester State University. Dr. Darrow teaches several courses at Worcester State including Anatomy & Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism, Neuroscience for CSD, Hearing Science, Introduction to Audiology, and Special Topics. Dr. Darrow’s clinical experience is vast and includes a clinical fellowship at the Department of Otolaryngology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and he is co-founder of the Hearing & Brain Centers of America.

• Darrow, KN. Dementia and the Role of the Hearing Healthcare Provider. The Hearing Review. Jan. 2023
• Darrow, KN. Preventing Decline. Advances in the Medical Treatment of Hearing Loss and Tinnitus. EIA Media Corp. October 2022
• Darrow, KN. Stop Living In Isolation. EIA Media Corp. September 2017
• Saxena RC, Lehmann AE, Hight AE, Darrow K, Remenschneider A, Kozin ED, Lee DJ. Social media utilization in the cochlear implant community. J Am Acad Audiol. 2015 Feb;26(2):197-204.
• Kozin E, Darrow KN, Hight A, Brown MC, Lee DJ. Direct Visualization of the Murine Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus for Optogenetic Stimulation of the Auditory Pathway.Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2014.
• Darrow KN, Slama M, Kozin K, Owoc M, Hancock K, Kempfle J, Edge A, Lacour S, Polley DB, Brown MC, Lee DJ. Optogenetic Stimulation of the cochlear nucleus using channelrhodopsin-2 evokes activity in the central auditory pathway. Brain Research, 2015.
• Brown MC, Drottar M, Benson TE, Darrow KN. Commissural Axons of the Cochlear Nucleus. J Comp Neurol. 2013 May 1;521(7):1683-96.
• Guo W, Chambers AR, Darrow KN, Hancock KE, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Polley DB. Robustness of cortical topography across fields, laminae, anesthetic states, and neurophysiological signal types. J Neurosci. 2012 Jul 4;32(27):9159
• Darrow KN, Benson TB, Brown MC. Planar Multipolar Cells in the Cochlear Nucleus Project to Medial Olivocochlear Neurons in Mouse. J. Comp Neurology. 2012 May 1; 520(7):1365-75.
• Depreux FS, Darrow KN, Conner D, Eavey RD, Liberman MC, Seidman CS, Seidman JG Heritability of otitis media in EYA4-deficient mice. J. Clinical Investigation. 2008 Feb;118(2):651-8
• Willliamson RE, Darrow KN, Giersch AB, Resendes BL, Conrad GW, Koester A, Liberman MC, Morton CC, Tasheva ES. Expression studies of osteoglycin/mimecan (OGN) in the cochlea and auditory phenotype of Ogn-deficient mice. Hearing Research. Hear Res. 2008 Mar;237(1-2):57-65
• Williamson RE, Darrow KN, Michaud S, Jacobs JS, Jones MC, Eberl DF, Maas RL, Liberman MC, Morton CC. Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) in hearing: Gene disruption by chromosomal rearrangement in a hearing impaired individual and model organism analysis. Am J Med Genet A. 2007 Jul 15;143(14):1630-9.
• Liu X, Darrow KN, Bulgakov OV, Pawlyk B, Adamian M, Liberman LD, Liberman MC, Li T. Usherin is required for maintenance of retinal photoreceptors and normal development of cochlear hair cells.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007 Mar 13;104(11):4413-8.
• Darrow KN, Maison SF, and Liberman MC. Selective removal of lateral olivocochlear efferents increases vulnerability to acute acoustic injury. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Feb;97(2):1775-85.
• Darrow KN, Maison SF, and Liberman MC. Cochlear efferent feedback balances interaural sensitivity. Nature Neurosci. 2006 Dec;9(12):1474-6.
• Darrow KN, Simmons E, Liberman LD, and Liberman MC. Dopaminergic innervation of the mouse cochlea: evidence for a separate cytochemical group of lateral olivocochlear efferents. Journal of Comp. Neurol. J Comp Neurol. 2006 Sep 20;498(3):403-14.
• Andrianopoulos MV, Darrow KN, Chen J. Multimodal standardization of voice among four multicultural populations: fundamental frequency and spectral characteristics. J. Voice. 2001 Jun;15(2):194-219.
• Andrianopoulos MV, Darrow KN, Chen J. Multimodal standardization of voice among four multicultural populations: formant structures. J. Voice. 2001 Mar;15(1):61-77.