Industrial Deafness. Hearing Testing and Noise Measurement

Understanding hearing through deafness.

T wenty-five years ago, many people thought that auditory prostheses were too crude to ever benefit auditory neuroscience. One skeptic thought that trying to understand auditory processing by using the artificial pattern of neural activation through a cochlear implant was like trying to understand how a television tuner works by applying a lightning bolt to the antenna. Recent papers in PNAS (1...

PREVALENCE OF NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS IN EMPLOYEES IN SHIRAZ INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES

Comprehensive Hearing Loss and Deafness Panel Plus

Deafness and Hereditary Hearing Loss Overview

Clinical characteristics. Hereditary hearing loss and deafness may be conductive, sensorineural, or a combination of both; syndromic (associated with malformations of the external ear or other organs or with medical problems involving other organ systems) or nonsyndromic (no associated visible abnormalities of the external ear or any related medical problems); and prelingual (before language de...

Review Hearing molecules: contributions from genetic deafness

Considerable progress has been made over the past decade identifying many genes associated with deafness. With the identification of these hereditary deafness genes and the proteins they encode, molecular elements of basic hearing mechanisms emerge. As functional studies of these molecular elements become available, we can put together the pieces of the puzzle and begin to reach an understandin...