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Do personal listening devices cause cochlear synaptopathy?

5 January 2022 | Praneta Kulloo | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, Otology | Cochlear synaptopathy, ECochG, Hidden hearing loss, Speech-in-noise

Cochlear synaptopathy is a condition in which noise interrupts the synaptic communication between sensory inner hair cells and low spontaneous rate cochlear nerve fibres. Since these nerve fibres are associated with signal coding in noisy backgrounds, their disruption leads to...

Hidden hearing loss in humans: cochlear synaptopathy is superseded by cognitive effects when listening to speech in noise

1 March 2018 | Elizabeth Beach | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic

Elizabeth Beach presents an overview of the recent research being undertaken at the National Acoustic Laboratories on speech in noise and its relationship to cochlear synaptopathy. Our team at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) has been investigating hidden hearing loss...