There is some data, though not related to spatial hearing, that ecological visual cues play a very important role in patients with unilateral cochlear implants (CI) helping them to restore the auditory modality.
The postulated effect of the CI on tinnitus was that by restoring the auditory input, the patient could recover the tonotopic reorganization of the auditory pathway after implant programming (Vermeire et al. 2008), and a masking effect could be produced (Culling et al. 2012).
The aim of BFP is to restore and amplify auditory perception and working memory processing through six exercises of increasing complexity.
This finding is meaningful in the context of our search to restore normal adaptation phenomena via electro-auditory hearing with an auditory brainstem implant on the same lines as our work in cochlear implants.
IL-4 was thus selected as the therapeutic gene for treating AIED in this study and we demonstrate here that BMSC-mediated delivery of IL-4 into the inner ear restores lost auditory function in guinea pig models of AIED.
Auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) restore hearing by electrical stimulation of the cochlear nucleus (CN).
Despite significant progress in surgical techniques and auditory implant technologies, more work is needed to develop novel approaches to restore hearing that would take into account patient-specific anatomical and clinical data that could predict and maximise the final outcome.
A cochlear implant (CI) can restore hearing in patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss by direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve.
