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Directional microphones and speech

1 May 2018 | | Hearing aids, cognition, hearing loss, listening effort, localisation, noise, rehabilitation, speech perception
This study aimed to research how speech recognition, listening effort and localisation depends on hearing aids’ microphone configuration in people with moderate to severe hearing losses. Eighteen participants with sensorineural, symmetrical, moderate to severe hearing loss were tested. Participants were...

Does stress and anxiety worsen idiopathic sudden hearing loss outcomes?

1 September 2018 | | Sudden hearing loss, correction of hearing impairment, patient admission, personal satisfaction
There have been suggestions that the natural course of the idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is not affected by intensive therapy. There is speculation as to whether unknown factors affect the treatment prognosis. This is a retrospective study of...

Social representation of hearing loss in different countries

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult | Hearing loss, attitude, cross-culture, social representation
The social representation of different phenomena has generated strong interest among researchers recently. The social representation of ‘hearing loss’ is different in different countries such as India, Iran, Portugal, and the UK, as was evidenced in previous research. This study...

Tablet-audiometer school hearing screening in the context of a developing country

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This paper presents a novel use of innovation to tackle the challenges of providing school-age hearing screening in low and middle income countries (in this case Nicaragua, second poorest in the western hemisphere), from the creators of a tablet-based audiometer...

Audiologists’ perspectives on their ability to address hearing, social and emotional adult patient needs

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult | Counselling, adjustment, confidence, patient-centred care, rehabilitation
Authors suggest there is little evidence that hearing technology addresses patients’ emotional concerns related to their lived experience of hearing and communication difficulty. The study explores the notion of audiologic counselling and discusses the role of audiologists in supporting the...

Neural plasticity and aural rehabilitation

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Neural plasticity refers to an ability of the brain and central nervous system to change their structure and function or their reorganisation in response to environmental cues, experience, learning, behaviour, injury and / or diseases and treatments. Neural plasticity is...

Interacoustics introduces ACT™ on Callisto™

7 January 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Interacoustics is excited to announce that the game-changing Audible Contrast Threshold test (ACT) is now available with the Callisto. This means that Callisto users can address the number one complaint from people with hearing loss: hearing in noisy situations. ACT...

ENT and the Titanic

6 July 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
One otolaryngologist who perished on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was Dr Ernest Moraweck, a prominent physician with an interest in ENT (and ophthalmology), living in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA [1]. Moraweck was an inventive...

From the editor May/Jun 2024

3 May 2024 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk One of the privileges of editing this magazine is interviewing senior figures within our specialty; so, it was wonderful...

Achieving consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
The British Cochlear Implant Group’s candidacy working group recently ran a national exercise, working towards a consensus on candidacy for cochlear implantation in the UK. Padraig Kitterick and Debi Vickers were instrumental in this exercise, and in the article below,...

Audiology in this issue...Current Topics in Tinnitus

2 November 2020 |
Prof David Baguley, PhD, MBA,Professor of Hearing Sciences, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham; Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham; Nottingham Audiology Services, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Nottingham, UK. Until really quite recently, the...

CI Advocacy in Action

9 May 2024 -10 May 2024 | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Is this a world record for the most people with cochlear implants at a conference? Helen Cullington, University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. I was lucky enough to go to the first ever global conference held by the Cochlear Implant...