introduction: parents are such important members of the cochlear-implant team that analysis of their views is essential in orderto improve services and outcomes. the authors developed a tool to assess parental attitudes towards various aspects of cochlear implantation in children who had passed aural rehabilitation sessions. the authors then went on to determine the validity and reliability of ...

Background Cochlear implantation is an approved treatment which can be used to treat severe to profound hearing loss. Imaging before cochlear implant surgery is very important in decision making and assessing the temporal bone anatomy for surgery. We aimed to assess the diagnostic value of high resolution CT scan (HRCT), and MRI of temporal bone in candidate pati...

Background Cochlear implant surgery is an invasive procedure for patients with bilateral Sensorineural hearing loss and may cause some risks such as cochlear damage. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of cochlear measures obtained by computed tomography (CT) scan in predicting depth of cochlear implant insertion. Materials and Methods This study was conducted in a retrospective and cross-se...

Objectives: Profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. As it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. According to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf childchr('39')s language development, this study evaluates the...

Cochlear-Implantation (CI) primarily aims at improvement of speech perception and thereby quality life for hearing impaired patients. In many cases loss is accompanied by tinnitus, which might further increase the perceived handicap. This retrospective study evaluates impact tinnitus on adult cochlear-implant recipients.

OBJECTIVE To estimate a residual hearing preservation in cochlear implant patients in short-, and long-term observation. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of 40 subjects with preserved residual hearing were included to this study. In all of them cochlear implant was provided due to a neurosensonal hearing loss. In all subjects hearing was tested using traditional audiological test battery. Cochlea...

The present study investigated the ability of normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant users to recognize vocal emotions. Sentences were produced by 1 male and 1 female talker according to 5 target emotions: angry, anxious, happy, sad, and neutral. Overall amplitude differences between the stimuli were either preserved or normalized. In experiment 1, vocal emotion recognition was measured ...

−Finite element analysis is used to compute the current distribution of the human cochlea during cochlear implant electrical stimulation. Genetic algorithms are then applied in conjunction with the finite element analysis to optimize the shape of cochlear implant electrode array based on the energy deposited in the spiral ganglion cells region. The goal is to improve the focus of electrical ene...