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 …

Occupational noise exposure accounts for approximately 16% of all disabling hearing
losses, but the true value and societal costs may be grossly underestimated because current …

Objectives: Permanent threshold elevation after noise exposure, ototoxic drugs, or aging is
caused by loss of sensory cells; however, animal studies show that hair cell loss is often …

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 …

Hearing loss caused by noise exposure, ototoxic drugs, or aging results from the loss of
sensory cells, as reflected in audiometric threshold elevation. Animal studies show that loss …

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

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the main factors that differentiate
listeners with clinically normal or “near-normal” hearing with regard to their speech-in-noise …

BACKGROUND The heterogeneity of tinnitus is thought to underlie the lack of objective
diagnostic measures. METHODS Longitudinal data from 20,349 participants of the Swedish …

It has been hypothesized that noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy in humans may result in
functional deficits such as a weakened middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) and degraded …

Musicians are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged noise exposure, but they may also be
at risk of early sub-clinical hearing damage, such as cochlear synaptopathy. In the current …