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 …

Voice emotion perception and production in cochlear implant users

NT Jiam, M Caldwell, ML Deroche, M Chatterjee… - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
Voice emotion is a fundamental component of human social interaction and social
development. Unfortunately, cochlear implant users are often forced to interface with highly …

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 …

Residual cochlear function in adults and children receiving cochlear implants: correlations with speech perception outcomes

TE Fontenot, CK Giardina, MT Dillon, MA Rooth… - Ear and …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Variability in speech perception outcomes with cochlear implants remains
largely unexplained. Recently, electrocochleography, or measurements of cochlear …

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 …

Nerve maintenance and regeneration in the damaged cochlea

SB Shibata, CL Budenz, SA Bowling, BE Pfingst… - Hearing research, 2011 - Elsevier
Following the onset of sensorineural hearing loss, degeneration of mechanosensitive hair
cells and spiral ganglion cells (SGCs) in humans and animals occurs to variable degrees …

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 …

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 …