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What do animal models tell us about tinnitus and hyperacusis?

23 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Tinnitus
Do animals have tinnitus? The obvious question to ask is: do animals have tinnitus? It is known that tinnitus is a conscious percept and as such affected by attention and not audible during sleep. For it to be demonstrated that...

Neural plasticity and aural rehabilitation

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Neural plasticity refers to an ability of the brain and central nervous system to change their structure and function or their reorganisation in response to environmental cues, experience, learning, behaviour, injury and / or diseases and treatments. Neural plasticity is...

What’s new in the cochlea?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Prof Furness in this article rounds up the steps and leaps being made by the scientific community to develop therapies to support, rejuvenate and / or replace the cochlear structures. David’s electron microscope images of the cochlear structures are world...

The search for pharmacological treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Where are we in our search for a hearing restoration grail? Nicola Robas leads us through the map pieces discovered in creating a pharmaceutical answer to hearing loss and tinnitus. Together, hearing loss and tinnitus affect over one in six...

Experience on the front line

21 January 2021 | | ENTA - General
21st January 2021 Back to basics Yesterday I went right back to where my medical career began. I grew up in Germany, bilingual. A prerequisite to studying medicine in Germany is that applicants have to spend two months working as...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - General
Alexander Pope said that “to err is human”, but medical errors can have serious consequences. How can better communication minimise the risk of them occurring in the first place? Allowing all members of the surgical team to feel empowered to...

Starkey Hearing Institute - Zambia: Bridging the Hearing Health Access Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa

7 January 2020 |
Here, we continue exploring audiology training routes across the world with a focus on bridging the Hearing Health Access Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article is provided by Alfred Mwamba, AuD, who is the Executive Director for the Starkey Hearing...

Tinnitus treatment device from concept to commercialisation

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Innovation in the field of healthcare is fraught with nearly insurmountable challenges. Bringing a novel product to the market requires a new (patentable) idea that can be reduced to practice, manufactured at scale, and can pass all regulatory barriers. In...

Fibre-delivered transoral laser surgery – description of a novel technique

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Head & Neck
Transoral flexible laser surgery refers to the use of a fibre-delivered laser for laryngeal procedures via direct laryngoscopy. We hear of a novel innovation. The continuous development of instruments to perform endoscopic procedures for treatment of laryngotracheal pathology – among...

Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant Registry

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Are you an otologist with an interest in implant surgery? Is your unit on the registry? If not, you’d better have a good excuse after reading this… What is the National BCHI Registry? The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant (BCHI)...

Getting to grips with acoustic trauma

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Our understanding of hearing loss caused by noise exposure to those in the armed forces is growing in interest and understanding. Research at a cellular level is essential to increase our understanding so that we can better diagnose, manage and...