Cochlear implant research and development in the twenty-first century: a critical update

RP Carlyon, T Goehring - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2021 - Springer
Cochlear implants (CIs) are the world's most successful sensory prosthesis and have been
the subject of intense research and development in recent decades. We critically review the …

Importance of cochlear health for implant function

BE Pfingst, N Zhou, DJ Colesa, MM Watts, SB Strahl… - Hearing research, 2015 - Elsevier
Amazing progress has been made in providing useful hearing to hearing-impaired
individuals using cochlear implants, but challenges remain. One such challenge is …

Cochlear health and cochlear-implant function

KC Schvartz-Leyzac, DJ Colesa, DL Swiderski… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Springer
The cochlear implant (CI) is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and
successful neuroprosthetic treatments developed to date. Although outcomes vary, CIs are …

Effects of electrode location on estimates of neural health in humans with cochlear implants

KC Schvartz-Leyzac, TA Holden, TA Zwolan… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Springer
There are a number of psychophysical and electrophysiological measures that are
correlated with SGN density in animal models, and these same measures can be performed …

Assessing the relationship between the electrically evoked compound action potential and speech recognition abilities in bilateral cochlear implant recipients

KC Schvartz-Leyzac, BE Pfingst - Ear and hearing, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The primary objective of the present study was to examine the relationship
between suprathreshold electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) measures …

Use of the guinea pig in studies on the development and prevention of acquired sensorineural hearing loss, with an emphasis on noise

G Naert, MP Pasdelou, CG Le Prell - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Stebbins et al.(1982) suggested the guinea pig to be one of the most useful species in which
to assess the effects of noise on the inner ear based on overlap with the audible frequency …

Insertion trauma and recovery of function after cochlear implantation: evidence from objective functional measures

BE Pfingst, AP Hughes, DJ Colesa, MM Watts… - Hearing research, 2015 - Elsevier
Partial loss and subsequent recovery of cochlear implant function in the first few weeks
following cochlear implant surgery has been observed in previous studies using …

Evaluating psychophysical polarity sensitivity as an indirect estimate of neural status in cochlear implant listeners

KN Jahn, JG Arenberg - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2019 - Springer
The physiological integrity of spiral ganglion neurons is presumed to influence cochlear
implant (CI) outcomes, but it is difficult to measure neural health in CI listeners. Modeling …

Can ECAP measures be used for totally objective programming of cochlear implants?

CM McKay, K Chandan, I Akhoun, C Siciliano… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Springer
An experiment was conducted with eight cochlear implant subjects to investigate the
feasibility of using electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) measures other …

Neurotrophin gene therapy in deafened ears with cochlear implants: long-term effects on nerve survival and functional measures

BE Pfingst, DJ Colesa, DL Swiderski… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Springer
Because cochlear implants function by stimulating the auditory nerve, it is assumed that the
condition of the nerve plays an important role in the efficacy of the prosthesis. Thus …