background: hearing loss (hl) is the most frequent neurosensory impairment. hl is highly heterogeneous defect. this disorder affects 1 out of 500 newborns. this study aimed to determine the role of dfnb2 locus and frequency of myo7a gene mutations in a population from west of iran. methods: thirty families investigated in shahrekord university of medical sciences in 2014, genetic linkage analys...

deafness is a heterogeneous condition with far-reaching effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. many regard themselves as members of a cultural minority who use sign language. they should not continue to be neglected in research on depression. the purpose of this article is to investigate depression among the deaf people based on researches results. we identified relevant studi...

BACKGROUND Congenital sensorineural deafness has been reported frequently in experimental mixed-breed white cats but there is a paucity of data on occurrence of deafness in client-owned pure-breed white cats. OBJECTIVE To describe hearing status in client-owned pure-breed white cats. ANIMALS Eighty-four pure-breed client-owned cats with white coat color of 10 registered breeds presented for...

Genetic factors are thought to account for approximately one half of cases of childhood hearing loss, the majority of which is non-syndromic and not associated with other abnormalities. Seventy-seven percent of hereditary, non-syndromic, prelingual deafness is autosomal recessive, 22% is autosomal dominant, and 1% is transmitted as a matrilineal or X linked trait. So far, more than 30 distinct ...

BACKGROUND Although over 60 non-syndromic deafness genes have been identified to date, the etiologic contribution of most deafness genes remained elusive. In this study, we addressed this issue by targeted next-generation sequencing of a large cohort of non-syndromic deaf probands. METHODS Probands with mutations in commonly screened deafness genes GJB2, SLC26A4 and MT-RNR1 were pre-excluded ...

In patients with diabetes mellitus, by the time hearing loss is detected using conventional tuning for ktests, damage has already affected sensorineural component, which will affect component of patient and hence quality life. Therefore audiometry early detection in people Type 2 Diabetes mellitus scan be done. It help us to take steps make aware deafness measures prevention further progression...

conclusions it is likely that learning social skills in adolescents with deafness would improve their sense of competence, and emotional well being. results the intervention led to significant improvement in total perceived competence scores of adolescents with deafness (p < 0.001) as well as in three domains of socio-emotional competence (p = 0.003), communication competence (p < 0.001), and s...

What would define real progress in the field of deafness research in fundamental and medical terms? In fundamental terms, progress would be measured by an improvement in our knowledge of the development and physiology of the ear. In medical terms, progress would lead to the division of the broad category of hearing defects into distinct clinical entities or subclasses, the collection of epidemi...

Copyright © 2016 Shin-ya Nishio et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Congenital sensorineural hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder, with approximately 1 in every 1000 newborns in developed countries s...