editorial: overview and challenges of implantable auditory prostheses

Editorial: Overview and Challenges of Implantable Auditory Prostheses

Overview and Challenges of Implantable Auditory Prostheses

ntil the middle of 20th century it was believed that a full understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the ear and the neural system is required for achieving successful auditory prostheses devices that can substitute the clever and subtle functions of the middle and inner ears and the associated neural structures. Surprisingly however very quickly auditory implants happened to become succe...

Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

Editorial Challenges

  Editorial Challenges abound as to the journals in Persian, which here I will refer to some of them. However, many of these challenges are concerned with all journals. The main problem which most articles suffer is neglecting the three elements of articles' necessity, purpose and benefit by their writers. Sometimes, one, two or all three of these elements are neglected, or little attention ...

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

Advances in Auditory Prostheses

Advances in auditory prostheses were accompanied by competing ideas and bold experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, an interesting and exciting time that was reminiscent of the Era of Warring States in ancient China (for a detailed review see Zeng et al. 2008). The most contested technological issue was between a single-electrode (House 1974) and a multi-electrode (Clark et al. 1977) cochlear impl...