Chris Plack was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA (first-class honours) in Natural Sciences in 1987 and a PhD in 1990. He has worked at the Universities of Minnesota, Sussex, Essex, Manchester, and Lancaster. Chris has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, 13 book chapters, an introductory textbook on hearing, and two edited volumes. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

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Hidden hearing loss in humans

Awareness of cochlear synaptopathy (‘hidden hearing loss’) is growing. Chris Plack gives us an introduction to the condition, defining it and reviewing recent research in humans and animals with respect to noise exposure. The main cause of hearing loss is...