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Hearing Research Sep 2019This paper presents evidence for a strong connection between the development of speech and language skills and musical activities of children and adolescents with... (Review)
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This paper presents evidence for a strong connection between the development of speech and language skills and musical activities of children and adolescents with hearing impairment and/or cochlear implants. This conclusion is partially based on findings for typically hearing children and adolescents, showing better speech and language skills in children and adolescents with musical training, and importantly, showing increases of speech and language skills in children and adolescents taking part in musical training. Further, studies of hearing-impaired children show connections between musical skills, involvement in musical hobbies, and speech and language skills. Even though the field is still lacking large-scale randomised controlled trials on the effects of musical interventions on the speech and language skills of children and adolescents with hearing impairments and cochlear implants, the current evidence seems enough to urge speech therapists, music therapists, music teachers, parents, and children and adolescents with hearing impairments and/or cochlear implants to start using music for enhancing speech and language skills. For this reason, we give our recommendations on how to use music for language skill enhancement in this group.
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Age Factors; Auditory Pathways; Auditory Perception; Child; Child Language; Child, Preschool; Cochlear Implantation; Cochlear Implants; Combined Modality Therapy; Hearing; Hearing Disorders; Humans; Music Therapy; Persons With Hearing Impairments; Recovery of Function; Speech; Treatment Outcome
PubMed: 31265971
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of... Aug 1965Dr T E T Weston describes his research into the effect of noise on hearing acuity and of deafness in the aged. He found that presbyacusis is associated with a...
Dr T E T Weston describes his research into the effect of noise on hearing acuity and of deafness in the aged. He found that presbyacusis is associated with a multiplicity of factors, e.g. smoking, circulatory disturbance, urban domicile, heredity and occupational acoustic trauma.Miss W Galbraith describes the social implications of various degrees of deafness and the ways in which they can be overcome by such measures as lipreading, hearing aids and rehabilitation.Sir Terence Cawthorne discusses otosclerosis, nearly 1% of the population being affected by this type of deafness. He describes the modern operation of insertion of an artificial piston through the stapes and states that 90% of cases submitted to this operation will show immediate improvement, whilst 85% should still have retained this improvement at the end of two years.
Topics: Audiometry; Auditory Perception; Child; Deafness; England; Geriatrics; Hearing Aids; Hearing Disorders; Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced; Humans; Lipreading; Male; Medicine; Noise; Ossicular Prosthesis; Otosclerosis; Presbycusis; Prostheses and Implants; Rehabilitation; Stapes; Stapes Surgery; Wales
PubMed: 14341856
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society... Jan 2023A series of articles discussing advanced diagnostics that can be used to assess noise injury and associated noise-induced hearing disorders (NIHD) was developed under...
A series of articles discussing advanced diagnostics that can be used to assess noise injury and associated noise-induced hearing disorders (NIHD) was developed under the umbrella of the United States Department of Defense Hearing Center of Excellence Pharmaceutical Interventions for Hearing Loss working group. The overarching goals of the current series were to provide insight into (1) well-established and more recently developed metrics that are sensitive for detection of cochlear pathology or diagnosis of NIHD, and (2) the tools that are available for characterizing individual noise hazard as personal exposure will vary based on distance to the sound source and placement of hearing protection devices. In addition to discussing the utility of advanced diagnostics in patient care settings, the current articles discuss the selection of outcomes and end points that can be considered for use in clinical trials investigating hearing loss prevention and hearing rehabilitation.
Topics: Humans; Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced; Noise; Deafness; Cochlea
PubMed: 36732240
DOI: 10.1121/10.0017002 -
International Journal of... 2020In the last years, the attention to the role of gender in physiopathology and pharmacology of diseases in several medical disciplines is rising; however, the data on the... (Review)
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In the last years, the attention to the role of gender in physiopathology and pharmacology of diseases in several medical disciplines is rising; however, the data on the relationship between gender and audio-vestibular disorders are still inconclusive and sometimes confusing. With this letter to the editor, we would like to review the role of gender in audio-vestibular disorders. Literature data show that anatomic variances of the inner ear do exist in men and women and that the different physiology and/or hormonal influence between genders could produce different clinical outcome of routine audiological and vestibular tests. Beyond the epidemiological gender-related differences, the clinical data suggest that the gender has a potential role as an etiopathogenetic factor in audio-vestibular disorders and it is probably responsible for the different clinical features observed between male and female subjects.
Topics: Auditory Pathways; Ear, Inner; Female; Hearing Disorders; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; Hormones; Humans; Male; Sex Characteristics; Sex Factors; Vestibular Diseases
PubMed: 32525749
DOI: 10.1177/2058738420929174 -
Genome Research Jan 1999Hearing impairment is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are >400 disorders in which hearing impairment is a characteristic of the syndrome, and family... (Review)
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Hearing impairment is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are >400 disorders in which hearing impairment is a characteristic of the syndrome, and family studies demonstrate that there are at least 30 autosomal loci for nonsyndromic hearing impairment. The genes that have been identified encode diaphanous (HDIA1), alpha-tectorin (TECTA), the transcription factor POU4F3, connexin 26 (GJB2), and two unconventional myosins (MYO7A and MYO15), and four novel proteins (PDS, COCH, DFNA5, DFNB9). The same clinical phenotype in hearing-impaired individuals, even those within the same family, can result from mutations in different genes. Conversely, mutations in the same gene can result in a variety of clinical phenotypes with different modes of inheritance. For example, mutations in the gene encoding MYO7A cause Usher syndrome type IB, autosomal-recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment (DFNB2), and autosomal-dominant nonsyndromic hearing impairment (DFNA11). Additionally, the mouse ortholog of the MYO7A gene is the shaker-1 gene. Mouse models such as shaker-1 have facilitated the identification of genes that cause hearing impairment in humans. The availability of high-resolution maps of the human and mouse genomes and new technologies for gene identification are advancing molecular understanding of hearing impairment and the complex mechanisms of the auditory system.
Topics: Animals; Connexin 26; Connexins; Disease Models, Animal; Genome, Human; Hearing Disorders; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans
PubMed: 9927480
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The Journal of International Advanced... Dec 2017Hearing loss in children represents a relevant topic, which needs an increasing attention by clinicians and researchers. Unfortunately, most cases of hearing loss still... (Review)
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Hearing loss in children represents a relevant topic, which needs an increasing attention by clinicians and researchers. Unfortunately, most cases of hearing loss still remain idiopathic (most frequently reported causes are genetic, infectious, toxic). An early diagnosis is crucial, as if not properly recognized, hearing disorders may impact negatively on children development and on quality of life. Literature data show that also children with mild-moderate, or even monolateral, hearing loss may present learning or verbal language disorders, if not adequately managed. The diagnostic work-up of hearing loss in children, which starts with universal neonatal hearing screening at birth, is complex, has to define hearing threshold, and, when possible, its etiology, often by multidisciplinary approach. At the same time, the audiological follow-up of those affected by moderate-severe hearing loss must be tight, as it is necessary to verify constantly: (i) hearing threshold levels, (ii) adequateness of hearing aids fitting, and (iii) language development. This review focuses specifically on the diagnostic work-up and the rehabilitative features of moderate-severe hearing loss in children.
Topics: Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Hearing Loss; Humans; Language Development
PubMed: 29360094
DOI: 10.5152/iao.2017.4162 -
Atencion Primaria May 2018
Topics: Adolescent; Autistic Disorder; Child; Child, Preschool; Developmental Disabilities; Early Diagnosis; Hearing Disorders; Humans; Immunization; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; Spain; Vision Disorders
PubMed: 29866354
DOI: 10.1016/S0212-6567(18)30367-6 -
Trends in Hearing 2017This special issue contains a collection of papers highlighting the collaborative research taking place at Macquarie University's Australian Hearing Hub. Included in...
This special issue contains a collection of papers highlighting the collaborative research taking place at Macquarie University's Australian Hearing Hub. Included in this introduction is a brief outline of the challenges in the hearing health and communication space and a brief description of the Australian Hearing Hub and its members, alongside an overview of the studies included in this special issue.
Topics: Audiology; Auditory Perception; Australia; Biomedical Research; Correction of Hearing Impairment; Diffusion of Innovation; Hearing; Hearing Disorders; Humans; Interdisciplinary Communication; Persons With Hearing Impairments; Universities
PubMed: 28752812
DOI: 10.1177/2331216517722920 -
Environmental Health Perspectives Oct 1978Methods for the evaluation in experimental animals of toxic substances that produce hearing impairment are described. In the experiments reported here, animals were...
Methods for the evaluation in experimental animals of toxic substances that produce hearing impairment are described. In the experiments reported here, animals were trained by positive reinforcement operant conditioning procedures so that their hearing could be examined by behavioral means. When normal hearing was established, aminoglycosidic antibiotics (kanamycin and dihydrostreptomycin) were given daily and hearing tests administered in order that the course of hearing loss could be closely followed. Initial loss of sensitivity to the high frequencies always progressed in time to impairment at the low frequencies, and these changes in hearing were correlated with a loss of receptor cells in the inner ear which started in the basal region of the cochlea and advanced toward the apex. Although such behavioral procedures are moderately expensive to instrument and relatively time-consuming to apply, they are shown to yield valid quantitative measures of hearing. Further, they provide for reliable early detection of the toxic process and a measure of behavioral impairment that can be precisely related to the histopathological changes that occur simultaneously in the inner ear and auditory nerve.
Topics: Animals; Conditioning, Operant; Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate; Ear, Inner; Erythrocebus patas; Hair Cells, Auditory; Haplorhini; Hearing Disorders; Hearing Tests; Kanamycin; Macaca; Species Specificity; Toxicology
PubMed: 82507
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Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2017Endocochlear, retrocochlear and/or central origin hearing damage may be related to the absence of appropriate levels of thyroid hormone during morphogenesis and/or... (Review)
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Endocochlear, retrocochlear and/or central origin hearing damage may be related to the absence of appropriate levels of thyroid hormone during morphogenesis and/or auditory system development. Hearing disorders related to the thyroid are not well studied, despite speculation on the pathophysiological mechanisms. The objective of this review was to characterize the main pathophysiological mechanisms of congenital hypothyroidism and to evaluate the relationship with central and peripheral hearing disorders. We conducted a literature review using the databases MedLine, LILACS, Cochrane Library, SciELO, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Embase, and Science Direct between July and September on 2016. We identified the studies that address hearing disorder mechanisms on the congenital hypothyroidism. Congenital hypothyroidism may have clinical and subclinical manifestations that affect the auditory system and may be a potential risk factor for hearing impairment. Hearing impairment can severely impact quality-of-life, which emphasizes the importance of monitoring and evaluating hearing during the clinical routine of these patients.
Topics: Animals; Congenital Hypothyroidism; Disease Models, Animal; Hearing Loss; Humans
PubMed: 28977164
DOI: 10.1590/2359-3997000000292