All Outputs (106)

Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL) (2016)
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The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on the topic, gaps in knowledge, the use of terminology, priorities for future research,... Read More about Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL).

Extracting Object Identity: Ventral or Dorsal Visual Stream? (2016)
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Electrical stimulation of the ear, head, cranial nerve, or cortex for the treatment of tinnitus: a scoping review (2016)
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Tinnitus is defined as the perception of sound in the absence of an external source. It is often associated with hearing loss and is thought to result from abnormal neural activity at some point or points in the auditory pathway, which is incorrectly... Read More about Electrical stimulation of the ear, head, cranial nerve, or cortex for the treatment of tinnitus: a scoping review.

The impact of self-efficacy, expectations, and readiness on hearing aid outcomes (2016)
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Objective: To examine the impact of self-efficacy and expectations for hearing aids, and readiness to improve hearing, on hearing aid outcome measures in first-time adult hearing aid users Design: A prospective, single centre design. Predictor variab... Read More about The impact of self-efficacy, expectations, and readiness on hearing aid outcomes.

Pediatric multiple sclerosis: update on diagnostic criteria, imaging, histopathology and treatment choices (2016)
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Pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) represents less than 5% of the MS population, but patients with pediatric-onset disease reach permanent disability at a younger age than adult onset patients. Accurate diagnosis at presentation and optimal long-term... Read More about Pediatric multiple sclerosis: update on diagnostic criteria, imaging, histopathology and treatment choices.

A programme of studies including assessment of diagnostic accuracy of school hearing screening tests and a cost-effectiveness model of school entry hearing screening programmes (2016)
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Background Identification of permanent hearing impairment at the earliest possible age is crucial to maximise the development of speech and language. Universal newborn hearing screening identifies the majority of the 1 in 1000 children born with a h... Read More about A programme of studies including assessment of diagnostic accuracy of school hearing screening tests and a cost-effectiveness model of school entry hearing screening programmes.

Only Behavioral But Not Self-Report Measures of Speech Perception Correlate with Cognitive Abilities (2016)
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Good speech perception and communication skills in everyday life are crucial for participation and well-being, and are therefore an overarching aim of auditory rehabilitation. Both behavioral and self-report measures can be used to assess these skill... Read More about Only Behavioral But Not Self-Report Measures of Speech Perception Correlate with Cognitive Abilities.

Relating approach-to-target and detection tasks in animal psychoacoustics (2016)
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Psychophysical experiments seek to measure the limits of perception. While straightforward in humans, in animals they are time consuming. Choosing an appropriate task and interpreting measurements can be challenging. We investigated the localization... Read More about Relating approach-to-target and detection tasks in animal psychoacoustics.

Visuospatial working memory mediates inhibitory and facilitatory guidance in preview search (2016)
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Visual search is faster and more accurate when a subset of distractors is presented before the display containing the target. This “preview benefit” has been attributed to separate inhibitory and facilitatory guidance mechanisms during search. In the... Read More about Visuospatial working memory mediates inhibitory and facilitatory guidance in preview search.

Improving health-related quality of life in single-sided deafness: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Unilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss, or single-sided deafness (SSD), impairs listening abilities supported by the use of two ears, including speech perception in background noise and sound localisation. Hearing-assistive devices can aid listen... Read More about Improving health-related quality of life in single-sided deafness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Personalised long-term follow-up of cochlear implant patients using remote care, compared with those on the standard care pathway: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2016)
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Introduction: Many resources are required to provide postoperative care to patients who receive a cochlear implant. The implant service commits to lifetime follow-up. The patient commits to regular adjustment and rehabilitation appointments in the fi... Read More about Personalised long-term follow-up of cochlear implant patients using remote care, compared with those on the standard care pathway: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Low-dose versus standard-dose intravenous alteplase in acute ischemic stroke (2016)
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Pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of dysphagia in subacute stroke (2016)
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Background and Purpose: Dysphagia is common after stroke, associated with increased death and dependency, and treatment options are limited. Pharyngeal electric stimulation (PES) is a novel treatment for poststroke dysphagia that has shown promise in... Read More about Pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of dysphagia in subacute stroke.

EEG activity evoked in preparation for multi-talker listening by adults and children (2016)
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Selective attention is critical for successful speech perception because speech is often encountered in the presence of other sounds, including the voices of competing talkers. Faced with the need to attend selectively, listeners perceive speech more... Read More about EEG activity evoked in preparation for multi-talker listening by adults and children.

A systematic review of techniques and effects of self-help interventions for tinnitus: Application of taxonomies from health psychology (2016)
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Objective: Self-help interventions are followed by people independently with minimal or no therapist contact. This review aims to assess the effectiveness of self-help interventions for adults with chronic tinnitus and systematically identify the sel... Read More about A systematic review of techniques and effects of self-help interventions for tinnitus: Application of taxonomies from health psychology.

Benefits to speech perception in noise from the binaural integration of electric and acoustic signals in simulated unilateral deafness (2016)
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Objectives: This study used vocoder simulations with normal-hearing (NH) listeners to (a) measure their ability to integrate speech information from a NH ear and a simulated cochlear implant (CI); and (b) investigate whether binaural integration is d... Read More about Benefits to speech perception in noise from the binaural integration of electric and acoustic signals in simulated unilateral deafness.

A comparison of phase imaging and quantitative susceptibility mapping in the imaging of multiple sclerosis lesions at ultrahigh field (2016)
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Objective The aim of this study was to compare the use of high-resolution phase and QSM images acquired at ultra-high field in the investigation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions with peripheral rings, and to discuss their usefulness for drawing... Read More about A comparison of phase imaging and quantitative susceptibility mapping in the imaging of multiple sclerosis lesions at ultrahigh field.

Access to aidable residual hearing in adult candidates for cochlear implantation in the UK (2016)
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Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) permits candidates to receive a cochlear implant provided they only hear sounds louder than 90 dB HL at 2 and 4 kHz. In some patients, their level of residual hearing may be s... Read More about Access to aidable residual hearing in adult candidates for cochlear implantation in the UK.

Choosing which ear to implant in adult candidates with functional residual hearing (2016)
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This study examined whether audiologists consider the potential benefits of contralateral hearing aid use following cochlear implantation when recommending which ear to implant in UK adult candidates with residual hearing. Thirty-four audiologists fr... Read More about Choosing which ear to implant in adult candidates with functional residual hearing.

Predicting speech perception outcomes following cochlear implantation in adults with unilateral deafness or highly asymmetric hearing loss (2016)
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Unilateral deafness and highly-asymmetric hearing loss can impair listening abilities in everyday situations, create substantial audiological handicap, and reduce overall quality of life. Preliminary evidence from early-phase studies in adults sugges... Read More about Predicting speech perception outcomes following cochlear implantation in adults with unilateral deafness or highly asymmetric hearing loss.