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Hearing Loss
Research from R. Schaette and co-authors yields new data on hearing loss
July 28th, 2009
"Schaette R, Kempter R. Predicting tinnitus pitch from patients' audiograms with a computational model for the development of neuronal hyperactivity. J Neurophysiol 101: 3042-3052, 2009," researchers in London, the United Kingdom report. "First published April 8, 2009; doi:10.1152/jn.91256.2008. Tinnitus is often related to hearing loss, but how hearing loss could lead to tinnitus has remained unclear. Animal studies show that the occurrence of tinnitus is correlated to increased spontaneous firing rates of central auditory neurons, but mechanisms that give rise to such hyperactivity have not been identified yet. Here we present a computational model that reproduces...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2009-07-28)
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