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 …

High sound levels capable of permanently damaging the ear are experienced not only in
factories and war zones but in concert halls, nightclubs, sports stadiums, and many other …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the main factors that differentiate
listeners with clinically normal or “near-normal” hearing with regard to their speech-in-noise …