Cochlear implant. II. On auditory sense phenomena of the cochlear implant patient.

The Cochlear Implant

The studies on cochlear implants have been conducted in the United States, Austria, Brasil, France, Finland, and some other countries. Up to now, this technique does not seem to have a wide spread application. Indeed it can only apply cases of deafness still presenting sufficient neural remnants to transmit the message. Moreover, the patient must be totally deaf( quasi­ complete loss of har cel...

cochlear implant (تکنیک و اندیکاسیون)

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Facial Nerve Stimulation in Cochlear Implant Patients

Cochlear Implant

Cochlear implants are first true bionic sense organs Like human inner ear hair cells they convert mechanical sound energy into electrical impulses. Cochlear implants are not hearing aids which merely amplify mechanical sound waves and increase their energy content Otter et al have shown that in the normal auditory nerve in young people there are approximately 35,000 nerve fibres; they concluded...

Auditory Perception and Verbal Intelligibility in Children with Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aids and Normal Hearing

Objective: The aim of the present research was to compare the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility in children with cochlear implant, hearing aids and normal hearing. Methods: 60 children aged 5-7 years were divided to three groups and each group contained 20 children. The first and second groups were selected ordinarily from children with cochlear implant and hearing aids by conve...