Hidden hearing injury: The emerging science and military relevance of cochlear synaptopathy

V Tepe, C Smalt, J Nelson, T Quatieri, K Pitts - Military medicine, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Introduction: The phenomenon recently described as “hidden hearing loss” was the subject
of a meeting co-hosted by the Department of Defense Hearing Center of Excellence and MIT …

[HTML][HTML] Noise-induced hearing loss: Translating risk from animal models to real-world environments

CG Le Prell, TL Hammill, WJ Murphy - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a common injury for service members and civilians.
Effective prevention of NIHL with drug agents would reduce the prevalence of NIHL. There …

Blast-induced cochlear synaptopathy in chinchillas

TT Hickman, C Smalt, J Bobrow, T Quatieri… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
When exposed to continuous high-level noise, cochlear neurons are more susceptible to
damage than hair cells (HCs): exposures causing temporary threshold shifts (TTS) without …

Noise of military weapons, ground vehicles, planes and ships

C Jokel, K Yankaskas, MB Robinette - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Noisy equipment and processes are found throughout military operations, exposing service
members to risks of hearing damage due to hazardous noise levels. This article provides an …

Characterization of acute hearing changes in United States military populations

QA Hecht, TL Hammill, PT Calamia, CJ Smalt… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Noise-induced hearing loss is a significant public health concern in all modern industrialized
societies, but there are few occupations where the risks of hazardous noise exposure are …

Analysis of correlation between window duration for kurtosis computation and accuracy of noise-induced hearing loss prediction

Y Tian, W Ding, M Zhang, T Zhou, J Li… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Kurtosis is considered an important metric for evaluating noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).
However, how to select window duration to calculate kurtosis remains unsolved. In this …

In-ear and on-body measurements of impulse-noise exposure

SK Davis, PT Calamia, WJ Murphy… - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Accurate quantification of noise exposure in military environments is challenging due to
movement of listeners and noise sources, spectral and temporal noise characteristics, and …

Hearing threshold levels and hearing loss among people in Zhejiang, China: a population-based cross-sectional study

D Wang, H Zhang, H Ma, L Zhang, L Yang, L Xu - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Hearing loss (≥ 26 dB threshold in the better ear), as a common chronic condition in
humans, is increasingly gaining attention. Relevant research in China is relatively scarce, so …

Incidence rates of tinnitus in active duty military service members between 2001 and 2015

BA Moore, JC Moring, WJ Hale, AL Peterson - American Journal of Audiology, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose Due to hazards in the contemporary operating environment, US military service
members are at increased risk for tinnitus. Previous research has characterized tinnitus …

Digital sampling of acoustic impulse noise: Implications for exposure measurement and damage risk criteria

CJ Smalt, DS Brungart - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Current standards for the measurement of impulse noise (eg, MIL-STD-1474E) recommend
using a sampling rate of at least 200kHz in order to accurately estimate the risk of hearing …