More than 60,000 people worldwide use cochlear implants as a means to restore functional
hearing. Although individual performance variability is still high, an average implant user …

Auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony is a form of hearing impairment in which cochlear outer
hair cell function is spared but neural transmission in the auditory pathway is disordered …

Cochlear implantation has become the standard‐of‐care for adults and children with severe
to profound hearing loss. There is growing evidence that qualitative as well as quantitative …

Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity were systematically studied in
21 subjects who had been clinically diagnosed with auditory neuropathy (AN), a recently …

Objective: To report the patient's characteristics, preoperative audiological profiles, surgical
outcomes, and postoperative performance for children with auditory neuropathy spectrum …

Chronic bilirubin encephalopathy (kernicterus) can be diagnosed using semi-objective
criteria based on history, physical and neurological examination and laboratory findings …

Objective: To describe a group of children exhibiting electrophysiologic responses
characteristic of auditory neuropathy (AN) who were subsequently identified as having …

Objective. Incidence of a specific pattern of auditory responses, absent auditory brainstem
responses (ABRs) and present otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), in newborn hearing …

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security
Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with …

Introduction: The majority of hearing loss in children can be accounted for by genetic
causes. Non-syndromic hearing loss accounts for 80% of genetic hearing loss in children …