Animal studies demonstrate that noise exposure can permanently damage the synapses
between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers, even when outer hair cells are intact and …

Many, or most, tinnitus models rely on increased central gain in the auditory pathway as all
or part of the explanation, in that central auditory neurones deprived of their usual sensory …

This study tested hypothesized relationships between noise exposure and auditory deficits.
Both retrospective assessment of potential associations between noise exposure history and …

The dorsal cochlear nucleus is the first site of multisensory convergence in mammalian
auditory pathways. Principal output neurons, the fusiform cells, integrate auditory nerve …

Recent animal research has shown that exposure to single episodes of intense noise
causes cochlear synaptopathy without affecting hearing thresholds. It has been suggested …

Studies in multiple species, including in post-mortem human tissue, have shown that normal
aging and/or acoustic overexposure can lead to a significant loss of afferent synapses …

Hidden hearing loss (HHL), a recently described auditory disorder, has been proposed to
affect auditory neural processing and hearing acuity in subjects with normal audiometric …

Objective: Short-term noise exposure that induces transient changes in thresholds has
induced permanent cochlear synaptopathy in multiple species. Here, the literature was …

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been proposed to play a major role in auditory perception,
and to maintain optimal information transmission from the cochlea to the auditory system. By …

Objectives: To determine whether auditory brainstem response (ABR) wave I amplitude is
associated with measures of auditory perception in young people with normal distortion …