Background: Cochlear implants (CI) for the rehabilitation of patients with profound or total bilateral sensorineural hypoacusis represent the initial use of electrical fields to provide audibility in cases where the use of sound amplifiers does not ...
Marina Davcheva-Chakar +5 more
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Cochlear Implantation in Neurobrucellosis
Neurobrucellosis is a disease consisting of a wide spectrum of complications such as peripheral neuropathy, cranial nerve involvement, ataxia, meningeal irritation, paraplegia, seizures, coma, and even death. The vestibulocochlear nerve seems to be the most commonly affected cranial nerve (10%). We present a patient with neurobrucellosis whose auditory
BAJİN, Münir Demir +3 more
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Objectives: Cochlear implantation provides significant benefits to patients with postmeningitis deafness; however, the prediction of the outcome is difficult.
Farid Alzhrani +5 more
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Useful residual hearing despite radiological findings suggestive of anacusis [PDF]
A severe malformation of the inner ear, often referred to as severe labyrinthine dysplasia or common cavity deformity, consists of an absent or dilated cochlear basal coil, wide communication with the vestibule and a tapered internal acoustic meatus and ...
Bamiou, DE, Mahoney, CO, Sirimanna, T
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Cochlear implant histopathology [PDF]
The microscopic examination of fifty‐five serially sectioned implanted temporal bones has provided insight into what is being stimulated; and the changes that are the result of the insertion and presence of the implant. The ganglion cell bodies (neurons) are structures being stimulated (two laboratories have reported an inverse relationship of the ...
Linthicum, Fred +3 more
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Aging, Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss: Effects of Auditory Rehabilitation and Training with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants on Cognitive Function and Depression among Older Adults [PDF]
A growing interest in cognitive effects associated with speech and hearing processes is spreading throughout the scientific community essentially guided by evidence that central and peripheral hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline.
Benatti, Alice +10 more
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Cochlear Implantation in the Elderly [PDF]
Hearing disorders become an increasingly important issue that influences quality of life and many other economic factors. Due to the prolongation of human life and the more active lifestyles of people in retirement age, there is an increasing requirement for the available treatment options of hearing loss in the aging population.
Henryk Skarżyński +4 more
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Frontal brain asymmetries as effective parameters to assess the quality of audiovisual stimuli perception in adult and young cochlear implant users [PDF]
How is music perceived by cochlear implant (CI) users? This question arises as "the next step" given the impressive performance obtained by these patients in language perception.
Babiloni, F +12 more
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Speech and Language Development in Deaf children after Cochlear implantation
Introduction: Cochlear implantation has been proven to cause considerable improvement in oral language of prelingually hearing –impaired children. The main objective of this article was to review those studies that have targeted the speech and language ...
Nahid Jalilevand
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Verbal Learning and Memory After Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deaf Adults: Some New Findings with the CVLT-II [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Despite the importance of verbal learning and memory in speech and language processing, this domain of cognitive functioning has been virtually ignored in clinical studies of hearing loss and cochlear implants in both adults and children ...
Boyce, Lauren +13 more
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