The message of Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment is that hearing loss is in the ear, but hearing problems are in the brain.? This book covers hearing loss, causes and prevention, treatments, and future directions of the field as well as looks at the cognitive problems that can develop with hearing loss. To avoid the silent epidemic? of hearing loss, it is necessary to promote early screening, use hearing protection, and change public attitudes toward noise in general. Successful treatments of hearing loss deal with restoring hearing sensitivity via hearing aids, cochlear, brainstem, or midbrain implants. Both the technical aspects and effects on the quality of life of these devices are discussed. The integration of all aspects of hearing, hearing loss, prevention, and treatment, make this a perfect one-volume course in audiology at the graduate student level, and a reference for established audiologists, ear surgeons, neurologists, pediatric and geriatric professionals. In-depth overview of hearing loss, causes and prevention, treatments, and future directions in the fieldWritten for researchers and clinicians such as auditory neuroscientists, audiologists, neurologists, speech pathologists, pediatricians, and geriatriciansGoes into depth on the benefits and problems with hearing aids and cochlear implants, and includes important quality of life issues INDICE: The Basics 1. Hearing basics 2. Brain plasticity 3. Multi-sensory processing The problem 4. Hearing problems 5. Types of hearing loss The causes 6. Causes of hearing loss 7. Epidemiology and genetics of hearing loss 8. Early diagnosis and prevention The treatments 9. Hearing aids 10. Implantable hearing aids 11. Cochlear implants; the world's best neural prosthesis The future 12. Auditory brainstem and midbrain implants 13. Rebuilding inner ears
- ISBN: 978-0-12-805398-0
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 402
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés