In this article, we establish a new phenomenon of "inattentional deafness" and highlight the level of load on visual attention as a critical determinant of this phenomenon. In three experiments, we modified an inattentional blindness paradigm to assess inattentional deafness. Participants made either a low- or high-load visual discrimination concerning a cross shape (respectively, a discriminat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study examined whether the prognosis of sudden deafness was dependent on the time of onset and evaluated the factors affecting prognosis during each period. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Patients who developed sudden hearing loss from January 2005 to December 2015 were evaluated retrospectively. Meteorological data were obtained from the official website of the Korea Met...

Nineteen adults and 9 children who received a unilateral cochlear implant between 2002 and 2007 were included in the study. All subjects were preoperatively diagnosed with significant residual hearing in low frequencies, termed as 'partial deafness', and were implanted according to a 6-step round window surgical technique for partial deafness cochlear implantation. Hearing was preserved to a gr...

Considerable progress has been made over the past decade identifying many genes associated with deafness. With the identification of these hereditary deafness genes and the proteins they encode, molecular elements of basic hearing mechanisms emerge. As functional studies of these molecular elements become available, we can put together the pieces of the puzzle and begin to reach an understandin...

Abstract This article discusses hearing disability in early modern Europe, focusing on medical ideas to demonstrate a profound shift thinking about deafness over the course of eighteenth century. Scholars have previously described changes social status deaf century, pointing at clerics’ sympathy for and philosophers’ fascination with gestures as origin language, but there is remarkably little s...

Cats have among the best hearing of all mammals in that they are extremely sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. The ear is a highly complex structure that is delicately balanced in terms of its biochemistry, types of receptors, ion channels, mechanical properties, and cellular organization. Sensorineural deafness is caused by "flawed" genes that are inherited from one or both parents. Hea...

Chronic renal failure is a well-known complication of long-standing diabetes. Moreover, audiological abnormalities are a common feature of patients with end-stage renal disease. Severe deafness, however, is not a typical symptom in most patients with chronic renal failure and likewise in patients with diabetes mellitus. In this case report, we describe a young patient with insulin-dependant dia...

Primary--i.e., nonsyndromal-postlingual deafness is inherited as an autosomal dominant phenotype in a large kindred in Costa Rica. Genetically susceptible individuals begin to lose hearing at low frequencies at about age 10 years, after language and speaking are learned. Deafness inevitably progresses by age 30 years to bilateral hearing loss of all frequencies. Intelligence, fertility, and lif...

OBJECTIVE We report a patient who underwent cochlear implantation in an ear with long-term deafness, after an acoustic neuroma had been removed surgically from the other, hitherto good ear and the cochlear nerve had subsequently been resected to relieve severe tinnitus. METHOD Case report. RESULTS The patient could not tolerate the cochlear implant, because of a moderate headache due to the...