contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. in fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. the representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...

Excessive exposure to loud noise can damage the cochlea and create a hearing loss. These pathologies coincide with a range of CNS changes including reorganisation of frequency representation, alterations in the pattern of spontaneous activity and changed expression of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters. Moreover, damage to the cochlea is often accompanied by acoustic disorders such as ...

Introduction: Cochlear noise injury is considered one of the most debilitating diseases worldwide. Numerous drug trials have been made for complete protection from this acoustic trauma, unfortunately with little success. Recently, drug combination has showed promising effects in treating this trauma; however, this has to be further documented by in-depth researches. Aim of the work: To estimate...

abstract   a cystic acoustic neurinoma almost entirely consists of a cystic component and is a well recognized subtype of acoustic schwannoma. we report a case of a 40-year- old male patient who presented with clinical features of a left cerebello-pontine angle mass lesion and ct scan findings mimicking the diagnosis of an epidermoid cyst. however intraoperative and histopathological findings w...

The most common consequences of acute acoustic trauma (AAT) are hearing loss at frequencies above 3 kHz and tinnitus. In this study, we have used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to visualize neuronal activation patterns in military adults with AAT and various tinnitus sequelae during an auditory "oddball" attention task. AAT subjects displayed overactivities principally during refl...

Cochlear trauma causes increased spontaneous activity (hyperactivity) to develop in central auditory structures, and this has been suggested as a neural substrate for tinnitus. Using a guinea pig model we have previously demonstrated that for some time after cochlear trauma, central hyperactivity is dependent on peripheral afferent drive and only later becomes generated intrinsically within cen...

Increased neuronal spontaneous firing rates have been observed throughout the central auditory system after trauma to the cochlea and this hyperactivity is believed to be associated with the phantom perception of tinnitus. Previously, we have shown in an animal model of hearing loss, that an acute injection with furosemide can significantly decrease hyperactivity after cochlear trauma and elimi...

UNLABELLED SummaryWe present a very rare example of chronic right heart failure caused by torrent tricuspid regurgitation. Massive right heart dilatation and severe tricuspid regurgitation due to avulsion of the tricuspid valve apparatus occurred as a result of a blunt chest trauma following the explosion of a gas bottle 20 years before admission, when the patient was a young man in Vietnam. Af...

The analysis of hearing mechanisms and research on the influence of various internal (pathologies, ageing) and external (trauma, vibration, noise) factors on sound perception are usually done using acoustic waves induced in the external ear canal. Stimuli which have been used for this purpose are: clicks, tone bursts, half-sine-waves, single tones or pairs of tones. The Corti organ’s responses ...