Background and Aim: Inner ear infection with some viruses may be one of the possible causes of Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL). This study aims to determine the frequency of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1, HSV-2) and Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in ...
Farhad Farahani+5 more
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Somatosensory tinnitus: current evidence and future perspectives [PDF]
In some individuals, tinnitus can be modulated by specific maneuvers of the temporomandibular joint, head and neck, eyes, and limbs. Neuroplasticity seems to play a central role in this capacity for modulation, suggesting that abnormal interactions ...
ALTISSIMI, Giancarlo+5 more
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Obesity prevention messages, risk behaviors for eating disorders and body mass index: Cluster analysis [PDF]
Public health experts have argued that obesity prevention campaigns can have negative health effects such as risk behaviors for eating disorders. This study aimed to identify the relationship between body mass index, the presence of risk behaviors for ...
Cruz Licea, Verónica+3 more
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Multi-Scale Profiling of Brain Multigraphs by Eigen-based Cross-Diffusion and Heat Tracing for Brain State Profiling [PDF]
The individual brain can be viewed as a highly-complex multigraph (i.e. a set of graphs also called connectomes), where each graph represents a unique connectional view of pairwise brain region (node) relationships such as function or morphology. Due to its multifold complexity, understanding how brain disorders alter not only a single view of the ...
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Frequency Modulation and Spatiotemporal Stability of the sCPG in Preterm Infants with RDS
The nonnutritive suck (NNS) is an observable and accessible motor behavior which is often used to make inference about brain development and pre-feeding skill in preterm and term infants.
Steven M. Barlow+4 more
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Hearing Screening around the World [PDF]
Newborn hearing screening programs for congenital disorders and chronic diseases are expanding worldwide, and children are identified at the earliest possible stage.
Ludwikowski, Maciej+1 more
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Determining the Association of Benign and Malignant Salivary Gland Tumours with ABO-Rh Blood Groups
Introduction Various studies have proposed that some ABO blood groups may be associated with increased risk of cancer. Hence, we decided to conduct this study to investigate the relationship between ABO-Rh blood group and risk of salivary gland tumor.
Mahbobeh Oroei
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Recognition of foreign-accented vocoded speech by native English listeners
This study examined how talker accentedness affects the recognition of noise-vocoded speech by native English listeners and how contextual information interplays with talker accentedness during this process.
Yang Jing+3 more
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OPA1-related auditory neuropathy: site of lesion and outcome of cochlear implantation. [PDF]
Hearing impairment is the second most prevalent clinical feature after optic atrophy in Dominant Optic Atrophy associated with mutations in the OPA1 gene.
Arslan, E+12 more
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Personalization of Hearing Aid Compression by Human-In-Loop Deep Reinforcement Learning [PDF]
Existing prescriptive compression strategies used in hearing aid fitting are designed based on gain averages from a group of users which are not necessarily optimal for a specific user. Nearly half of hearing aid users prefer settings that differ from the commonly prescribed settings.
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