Animal studies demonstrate that noise exposure can permanently damage the synapses
between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers, even when outer hair cells are intact and …

Occupational noise exposure accounts for approximately 16% of all disabling hearing
losses, but the true value and societal costs may be grossly underestimated because current …

This study tested hypothesized relationships between noise exposure and auditory deficits.
Both retrospective assessment of potential associations between noise exposure history and …

Hidden hearing loss (HHL), a recently described auditory disorder, has been proposed to
affect auditory neural processing and hearing acuity in subjects with normal audiometric …

In rodents, noise exposure can destroy synapses between inner hair cells and auditory
nerve fibers (“cochlear synaptopathy”) without causing hair cell loss. Noise-induced …

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

Understanding speech when background noise is present is a critical everyday task that
varies widely among people. A key challenge is to understand why some people struggle …

Hearing loss caused by noise exposure, ototoxic drugs, or aging results from the loss of
sensory cells, as reflected in audiometric threshold elevation. Animal studies show that loss …

Recent animal studies have shown that the synapses between inner hair cells and the
dendrites of the spiral ganglion cells they innervate are the elements in the cochlea most …

Objective: Short-term noise exposure that induces transient changes in thresholds has
induced permanent cochlear synaptopathy in multiple species. Here, the literature was …