Tinnitus, reduced sound-level tolerance, and difficulties hearing in noisy environments are
the most common complaints associated with sensorineural hearing loss in adult …

Following a conversation in a crowded restaurant or at a lively party poses immense
perceptual challenges for some individuals with normal hearing thresholds. A number of …

Significance: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is an important public health issue resulting
in decreased quality of life for affected individuals, and significant costs to employers and …

The current gold standard of clinical hearing assessment includes a pure-tone audiogram
combined with a word recognition task. This retrospective study tests the hypothesis that …

In search of biomarkers for cochlear neural degeneration (CND) in electrocochleography
from humans with normal thresholds, we high-pass and low-pass filtered the responses to …

Currently, there are no approved medicines available for the treatment of hearing loss.
However, research over the past two decades has contributed to a growing understanding of …

Introduction This study was performed to assess identifiable abnormalities in tinnitus
patients with normal hearing. Methods The medical records of subjective non-pulsatile …

The middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) in humans is a bilateral contraction of the middle ear
stapedial muscle in response to moderate-to-high intensity acoustic stimuli. Clinically …

Recent studies have found that envelope following responses (EFRs) are a marker of age-
related and noise-or ototoxic-induced cochlear synaptopathy (CS) in research animals …

Hearing loss affects approximately 18% of the population worldwide. Hearing difficulties in
noisy environments without accompanying audiometric threshold shifts likely affect an even …