Speechreading is a visual communicative skill for perceiving speech. In this study, we tested the effects of speech experience and deafness on the speechreading neural network in normal hearing controls and in two groups of deaf patients who became deaf either before (prelingual deafness) or after (postlingual deafness) auditory language acquisition. Magnetic signals from the cerebral cortex we...

background: mutations of gjb2 gene encoding connexion 26 are the most common cause of hearing loss in many popula­tions. a very wide spectrum of gjb2 gene mutations associated with hearing loss have been detected but pathogenic role has been tested only for a part of them. in this study, we have provided genetic evidence on the pathogenicity of our previ­ously reported novel gjb2 allelic varian...

LEOPARD syndrome is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease, which is characterized with cutaneous pigmented patches, electrocardiographic changes, ocular hypertelorism, retarded growth, pulmonic stenosis, genital abnormalities and congenital deafness. The gene of this disease have high penetrance but expression is varied and incomplete forms may be seen. We report a 23 year-old woman wi...

The mutation spectrum of deafness genes may vary in different ethnical groups. In this study, we investigated the genetic etiology of nonsyndromic deafness in four consanguineous and two multiplex Uyghur families in which mutations in common deafness genes GJB2, SLC26A4 and MT-RNR1 were excluded. Targeted next-generation sequencing of 97 deafness genes was performed in the probands of each fami...

Sudden deafness is a disorder defined as acute sensorineural deafness of unknown etiology. To determine whether establishing the pathogenesis of this disease is possible, this study analyzed the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of early stages of sudden deafness in combination with the clinical results of treatments. The MRI findings of 18 patients with sudden deafness included three cases of s...

Acute profound deafness is a broad term that is used to describe severe deafness that occurs acutely or suddenly. Of the diseases that are studied by the research team of the Ministry of Health and Welfare named after this term, sudden deafness, bilateral idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss, steroid-responsive sensorineural hearing loss, and mumps deafness without parotid swelling will be dis...

Topicality: Despite the fact that during cochlear implantation can have negative impact on peripheral part of vestibular analyzer, in most clinics perform CI, there is no routine examination function pre- and postoperative periods. Aim: to study condition analyzer children with sensorineural deafness before after through analysis quantitative characteristics rotational test. Material methods: T...

Abstract GJB2 (encoding connexin26, Cx26) mutation is the most common genetic cause of hereditary deafness. Cochlear sensory hair cell (HC) death core pathologic phenomenon ‐related However, mechanism‐based therapy still obscure. A targeted‐cell conditional Gjb2 knockout mouse model was established in which Cx26 Deiters cells and pillar were knocked out at birth. We explored mechanism HC caused...