Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2007 Aging is a natural consequence of a society developing process. The city of São Paulo has almost one million people who are above sixty years of age. Age-related hearing loss equals the total hearing loss resulted from cell degeneration caused by noise exposure, ototoxic agents and the loss caused by disorders and medical treatments.To study age ...
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HASA-net: A non-intrusive hearing-aid speech assessment network [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Without the need of a clean reference, non-intrusive speech assessment methods have caught great attention for objective evaluations. Recently, deep neural network (DNN) models have been applied to build non-intrusive speech assessment approaches and confirmed to provide promising performance.
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Effect of tinnitus on sound localization ability in patients with normal hearing
Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2023 Objectives: To determine whether tinnitus negatively impacts the accuracy of sound source localization in participants with normal hearing. Methods: Seventy-five participants with tinnitus and 74 without tinnitus were enrolled in this study. The accuracy
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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]
, 2016 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.
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Dynamic Processing Neural Network Architecture For Hearing Loss Compensation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This paper proposes neural networks for compensating sensorineural hearing loss. The aim of the hearing loss compensation task is to transform a speech signal to increase speech intelligibility after further processing by a person with a hearing impairment, which is modeled by a hearing loss model.
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Natural killer cells attenuate cytomegalovirus-induced hearing loss in mice [PDF]
, 2017 Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common non-hereditary cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) yet the mechanisms of hearing loss remain obscure.
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Effect of N‐acetyl‐cysteine treatment on sensorineural hearing loss: a meta‐analysis
World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2022 N‐acetyl‐cysteine (NAC) is an efficacious treatment for sensorineural hearing loss in animal models, such as noise‐induced hearing loss (NIHL), however previous research into the effect of NAC on patients with hearing loss produced contradictory results.
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Effect of changes in the hearing aid subsidy on the prevalence of hearing loss in South Korea
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 ObjectivesSouth Korea's National Health Insurance has provided hearing aids to registered individuals with hearing disabilities since 1989. In 2015, hearing aid subsidies increased to approximately US$1,000.
Chul Young Yoon +7 more
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Work-related noise exposure in a cohort of patients with chronic tinnitus: analysis of demographic and audiological characteristics [PDF]
, 2017 Work-related noise exposure is one of the major factors contributing to the development of adult-onset hearing loss and tinnitus. The aim of this study was to analyze, in patients with chronic tinnitus and long-term occupational noise exposure, (A ...
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 Objectives: To assess the knowledge and attitudes among school principals towards childhood hearing loss and hearing services to support the implementation of inclusive education in Samoa.
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