Aging, Cognitive Load, Dementia and Hearing Loss

Aging, cognitive load, dementia and hearing loss.

Sensorineural systems play a crucial role in the diagnosis, treatment and management of several neurological disorders. The function of the eye and ear represents a unique window for testing various conditions in cognitive decline or dementia. Touch and smell have also been found to be strongly involved in neurodegenerative conditions, and their decline has been significantly associated with th...

Hearing loss and dementia in the aging population.

For some years, policy makers and medical scientists have both begun to focus more on chronic noncommunicable diseases. It is well known that cardio-cerebrovascular disease, tumors, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are considered areas of major interest in many scientific projects and health programs. The economic impact of cardio-cerebrovascular disease in EU alone i...

Hearing loss and incident dementia.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether hearing loss is associated with incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD). DESIGN Prospective study of 639 individuals who underwent audiometric testing and were dementia free in 1990 to 1994. Hearing loss was defined by a pure-tone average of hearing thresholds at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz in the better-hearing ear (normal, <25 dB [n = 455]; mild loss, ...

Hearing loss in aging Summary

Hearing loss and cognitive effort.

O ne of the most important contributions that psychologists have made to audiology is the concept that, in any behavioral task, successful completion of the task requires the allocation of cognitive resources, and that these resources must be drawn from a limited pool. In the case of listening tasks involving linguistic stimuli, either isolated words or sentences, the processes of phonological,...