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Do personal listening devices cause cochlear synaptopathy?

5 January 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Otology | Cochlear synaptopathy, ECochG, Hidden hearing loss, Speech-in-noise

Cochlear synaptopathy is a condition in which noise interrupts the synaptic communication between sensory inner hair cells and low spontaneous rate cochlear nerve fibres. Since these nerve fibres are associated with signal coding in noisy backgrounds, their disruption leads to...