Monaural hearing induces auditory system reorganization. Imbalanced input also degrades time-intensity cues for sound localization and signal segregation for listening in noise. While there have been studies of bilateral auditory deprivation and later hearing restoration (e.g., cochlear implants), less is known about unilateral auditory deprivation and subsequent hearing improvement. We investi...

BACKGROUND Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic health conditions of older people. Hearing aids are the customary treatment and they improve quality of life in older adults. Even so, relatively few older adults with uncomplicated, mild to moderate, adult-onset, sensorineural hearing loss use hearing aids. One reason for this is a belief that hearing aids do not provide sufficient valu...

A likely consequence of sensorineural hearing loss is a diminished ability to understand speech in noisy backgrounds. Indeed, the inability to hear in noise is one of the main reasons for dissatisfaction with hearing aid use.1 Although hearing aids with a directional microphone provide substantial improvement in the ability of wearers to understand speech in noisy environments,2 space requireme...

With the physical, emotional and cognitive effects of senility, elderly people, especially those with impaired hearing, need rehabilitation for improving their life conditions. Hearing aids are frequently used to improve their daily life communications and activities. The aim of this study was to report the cognitive and psychological benefits of using hearing aids by the elderly people, over t...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate whether adding low-molecular-weight dextran to oral steroids in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss resulted in better hearing outcomes than those in patients receiving oral corticosteroids alone. STUDY DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Tertiary teaching hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The authors reviewed the clinical ...

BACKGROUND Some patients have to stop using their air-conduction hearing aid(s) because it causes or exacerbates chronic otitis. Then, a solution is the use of a bone-conduction hearing aid such as the percutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA). OBJECTIVE To compare patients' performance with their previous air-conduction hearing aid(s) and their BAHA using audiometric tests and a question...

The present study examined the phenomenon of acclimatization in persons with a severe-to-profound hearing loss. A secondary purpose was to examine the efficacy of a digital nonlinear power hearing aid that has a low compression threshold with expansion for this population. Twenty experienced hearing aid users wore the study hearing aids for three months and their performance with the study hear...

OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis that comorbid diseases significantly affect the prognosis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL). STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. METHODS The records of patients newly diagnosed with ISSNHL and treated with steroid prednisolone in a tertiary referral center between January 2003 and December 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Pretreatmen...

background and aim: it has been several decades since the technology of frequency lowering (fl) has been proposed. however, primary research has revealed no benefits regarding the use of this technique. currently, new methods for fl and improvement of perception of speech and fricative sounds have led to the application of these methods by numerous companies to produce hearing aids. in this stu...