Deafness

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Binaural Cochlear Implant Sound Coding Strategy Inspired by the Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex. 
  • A Lancet Commission to address the global burden of hearing loss. 
  • A Systematic Review on the Association Between Vestibular Dysfunction and Balance Performance in Children With Hearing Loss. 
  • A lethal association of congenital apnea with brainstem tegmental necrosis. 
  • A model of educational resource use by children with cochlear implants. 
  • Addressing the global burden of hearing loss. 
  • Association of reticular dysgenesis (thymic alymphoplasia and congenital aleukocytosis) with bilateral sensorineural deafness. 
  • Bilateral cochlear implants controlled by a single speech processor. 
  • Characterizing North Carolina's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants and Toddlers: Predictors of Vocabulary, Diagnosis, and Intervention. 
  • Clinical and psychosocial risk factors of hearing outcome in older adults with cochlear implants. 
  • Cochlear implant studies at Research Triangle Institute and Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cochlear implantation update. 
  • Cochlear implants matching the prosthesis to the brain and facilitating desired plastic changes in brain function. 
  • Comparison of electrode discrimination, pitch ranking, and pitch scaling data in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Cost Effectiveness of Childhood Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Nicaragua: A Disability Adjusted Life Year Model. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of CI in developing countries. 
  • Cost-utility analysis of the cochlear implant in children. 
  • Deafening drives cell-type-specific changes to dendritic spines in a sensorimotor nucleus important to learned vocalizations. 
  • Design for an inexpensive but effective cochlear implant. 
  • Dystonia with and without deafness is caused by TIMM8A mutation. 
  • Early corneal findings in Cogan's syndrome. 
  • Early onset of deafening-induced song deterioration and differential requirements of the pallial-basal ganglia vocal pathway. 
  • Effects of stimulus level on electrode-place discrimination in human subjects with cochlear implants. 
  • Electrode discrimination and speech recognition in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Environmental Factors for Hearing Loss and Middle Ear Disease in Alaska Native Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from a Cluster Randomized Trial. 
  • Essential equipment and services for otolaryngology care: a proposal by the Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Initiative. 
  • Estimated Monetary Value of Future Research Clarifying Uncertainties Around the Optimal Adult Hearing Screening Schedule. 
  • Evaluating the Association Between Hearing Loss and Falls in Adults With Vestibular Dysfunction or Nonvestibular Dizziness. 
  • Evaluation of MRI compatibility of the modified nucleus multichannel auditory brainstem and cochlear implants. 
  • Evaluation of different choices of n in an n of m processor for cochlear implants. 
  • Expediting the identification of impaired channels in cochlear implants via analysis of speech-based confusion matrices. 
  • Failure and Revision Surgery After Cochlear Implantation in the Adult Population: A 10-year Single-institution Retrospective and Systematic Review of the Literature. 
  • Fetal antisense oligonucleotide therapy for congenital deafness and vestibular dysfunction. 
  • GDP Matters: Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Glutamatergic neuronal differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells after transient expression of neurogenin 1 and treatment with BDNF and GDNF: in vitro and in vivo studies. 
  • Hearing-in-noise benefits after bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation continue to improve 4 years after implantation. 
  • Human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness DFNA17 is due to a mutation in nonmuscle myosin MYH9. 
  • Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning. 
  • Influence of gestational age on death and neurodevelopmental outcome in premature infants with severe intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Investigation of the effects of temporal and spatial interactions on speech-recognition skills in cochlear-implant subjects. 
  • Loss of KCNJ10 protein expression abolishes endocochlear potential and causes deafness in Pendred syndrome mouse model. 
  • Macrophage invasion contributes to degeneration of stria vascularis in Pendred syndrome mouse model. 
  • Making sense of sensory language: Acquisition of sensory knowledge by individuals with congenital sensory impairments. 
  • Modification of the Beck Depression Inventory for use with a deaf population. 
  • Moving Beyond GDP: Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Latin America. 
  • Multicenter U.S. bilateral MED-EL cochlear implantation study: speech perception over the first year of use. 
  • Mutations Impairing GSK3-Mediated MAF Phosphorylation Cause Cataract, Deafness, Intellectual Disability, Seizures, and a Down Syndrome-like Facies. 
  • Mutations in SLC19A2 cause thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia associated with diabetes mellitus and deafness. 
  • Myosin VIIA defects, which underlie the Usher 1B syndrome in humans, lead to deafness in Drosophila. 
  • Neonatal candidiasis among extremely low birth weight infants: risk factors, mortality rates, and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 to 22 months. 
  • Neuronal Development of Hearing and Language: Cochlear Implants and Critical Periods. 
  • Of mice, birds, and men: the mouse ultrasonic song system has some features similar to humans and song-learning birds. 
  • Predicting behavior problems in deaf and hearing children: the influences of language, attention, and parent-child communication. 
  • Preoperative Imaging Findings and Cost in Adults With Postlingual Deafness Prior to Cochlear Implant. 
  • Problems of deaf children and their parents. 
  • Psychophysical threshold variability in cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Pure tone audiometry as assessed by a commercially-available mobile phone application compared to formal audiometry. 
  • Rehabilitation and Psychosocial Determinants of Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Older Adults. 
  • Revision cochlear implantation surgery in adults: indications and results. 
  • Round window electrocochleography and speech perception outcomes in adult cochlear implant subjects: comparison with audiometric and biographical information. 
  • Spectrum of immune-mediated inner ear disease and cochlear implant results. 
  • Successful treatment of sudden hearing loss in Cogan's syndrome with corticosteroids. 
  • Symbolic Play and Novel Noun Learning in Deaf and Hearing Children: Longitudinal Effects of Access to Sound on Early Precursors of Language. 
  • Targeted disruption of the Kvlqt1 gene causes deafness and gastric hyperplasia in mice. 
  • Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical stimulation. 
  • Temporal representations with cochlear implants. 
  • Temporal representations with cochlear implants. 
  • The Association Between Hearing Loss and Surgical Complications in Older Adults. 
  • The Song Remains the Same. 
  • The deafness-associated mitochondrial DNA mutation at position 7445, which affects tRNASer(UCN) precursor processing, has long-range effects on NADH dehydrogenase subunit ND6 gene expression. 
  • The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs. 
  • The effect of channel interactions on speech recognition in cochlear implant subjects: predictions from an acoustic model. 
  • The future of cochlear implants. 
  • The surprising performance of present-day cochlear implants. 
  • Three-month results with bilateral cochlear implants. 
  • Timing of cochlear implantation and parents' global ratings of children's health and development. 
  • Toward greater understanding of depression in deaf individuals. 
  • Trends in rehabilitation after cochlear implantation. 
  • Ventral cochlear nucleus responses to contralateral sound are mediated by commissural and olivocochlear pathways. 
  • What is the role of preoperative imaging for cochlear implants in adults with postlingual deafness? 
  • Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Velkey, John Matthew, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education in the Department of Cell Biology, Cell Biology
  • Wilson, Blake Shaw, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering
  • Woldorff, Marty G., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society