Following a conversation in a crowded restaurant or at a lively party poses immense
perceptual challenges for some individuals with normal hearing thresholds. A number of …

Hearing loss affects approximately 18% of the population worldwide. Hearing difficulties in
noisy environments without accompanying audiometric threshold shifts likely affect an even …

Permanent threshold elevation after noise exposure or aging is caused by loss of sensory
cells; however, animal studies show that hair cell loss is often preceded by degeneration of …

Sound processing in the human auditory system is complex and highly non-linear, whereas
hearing aids (HAs) still rely on simplified descriptions of auditory processing or hearing loss …

Introduction This study was performed to assess identifiable abnormalities in tinnitus
patients with normal hearing. Methods The medical records of subjective non-pulsatile …

Healthy aging may be associated with neural degeneration in the cochlea even before
clinical hearing loss emerges. Reduction in frequency-following responses (FFRs) to tonal …

Recent studies have found that envelope following responses (EFRs) are a marker of age-
related and noise-or ototoxic-induced cochlear synaptopathy (CS) in research animals …

Aging, noise exposure, and ototoxic medications lead to cochlear synapse loss in animal
models. As cochlear function is highly conserved across mammalian species, synaptopathy …

Over the past decades, different types of auditory models have been developed to study the
functioning of normal and impaired auditory processing. Several models can simulate …

Noise induced synaptopathy (NIS) and hidden hearing loss (NIHHL) have been hot topic in
hearing research since a massive synaptic loss was identified in CBA mice after a brief …