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Do personal listening devices cause cochlear synaptopathy?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
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...

Meaningful life changes following hearing aid use: a qualitative user perspective

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Part of a larger survey on hearing aid outcomes and experiences, this US-based study explores meaningful life changes due to hearing aid use in adults, with the aim of contributing to and improving all aspects of aural rehabilitation for this...

Cognitive effort and listening in everyday life

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Dining with family members, amongst the clinking of dishes and glasses, the sounds of conversations and laughter, the husband, a user of hearing aids, misses his wife’s request to bring another bottle of wine. After a third try, the wife,...

From melody to meaning: Meludia music training for CI users

19 June 2025 | Company Profiles
Music and speech share deep cognitive and auditory roots. Meludia on myMED-EL, a music training especially curated for cochlear implant (CI) users, taps into this connection to support hearing performance. Meludia’s exercises can directly translate to better speech comprehension. -...
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Introduction to Sound: Acoustics for the Hearing and Speech Sciences

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The fifth edition of Charles E Speaks’ Introduction to Sound Acoustics for the Hearing and Speech Sciences is a comprehensive, teaching-first textbook spanning 11 chapters. It begins with the nature of soundwaves presented in concise, well-structured sections on transmitting mediums,...

Benefits of bilateral cochlear implants

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants
In an ideal world, if you could increase the clinical use of bilateral cochlear implant (CI) treatment, would you? If you’re interested in exploring the clinical benefits of bilateral CIs, or how reviews can directly inform patient care, this systematic...

Listening differences in autistic individuals

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In this article Erin Schafer, Lauren Mathews and Andrea Dunn outline the common auditory issues that autistic individuals face in comparison with their neurotypical peers and highlight the need to move beyond the traditional audiologic test battery when working with...

Implants and the identity of self

4 September 2023 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Hearpeers is MED-EL’s international community for people with hearing implants and those considering getting a hearing implant, as well as their families and friends. This group enables people to connect with hearing implant recipients from around the world to learn...

The ups and downs of overseas research – the inner ear at altitude

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology
Conducting research at extreme altitude presents unique challenges. This study of the inner ear at 5350m navigates setbacks in a quest for scientific discovery. Having completed a diploma in mountain medicine in my foundation years, I decided to undertake a...

Questionnaires to measure tinnitus severity

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
The handicap associated with tinnitus can arise from any combination of stress, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, insomnia, difficulties concentrating, or impairments in quality of life or everyday functioning. Measuring such handicap and determining clinical need is therefore far from trivial....

Muscle tension dysphagia: an underdiagnosed problem

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this article, the authors introduce the description of swallowing problems which have been recently attributed to muscle tension dysphagia (MTDg). The authors are clear that this is a diagnosis of exclusion, and it is important to rule out other...

Standards for Safe Listening – how they align and how some differ

19 May 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The ‘Make Listening Safe workgroup’ is an initiative of The World Health Organization (WHO) in the framework of the World Hearing Forum and is committed to creating a world where nobody’s hearing is put in danger due to unsafe listening....