Listening handicap in tinnitus patients with normal extended high frequencies from the perspective of the autonomic nervous system-Effort or fatigue?

Objective: In previous studies, the results regarding the presence of listening effort or fatigue in tinnitus patients were inconsistent. The reason for this inconsistency could be that extended high frequencies, which can cause listening handicap, were not within normal limits. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the listening skills in tinnitus patients by matching the normal hearing thresholds at all frequencies, including the extended high frequency.

Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale for Adults.

Purpose: Listening-related fatigue (LRF) is a prominent topic of research interest. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the 40-item Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale for Adults (TR-VFS-A-40).

Method: This study included 317 adults with no hearing loss and 260 adults with hearing loss in the study group, totaling 577 adults aged 18-75 years.

Subcortical auditory system in tinnitus with normal hearing: insights from electrophysiological perspective.

Purpose: The mechanism of tinnitus remains poorly understood; however, studies have underscored the significance of the subcortical auditory system in tinnitus perception. In this study, our aim was to investigate the subcortical auditory system using electrophysiological measurements in individuals with tinnitus and normal hearing. Additionally, we aimed to assess speech-in-noise (SiN) perception to determine whether individuals with tinnitus exhibit SiN deficits despite having normal-hearing thresholds.

Subcortical Auditory Processing and Speech Perception in Noise Among Individuals With and Without Extended High-Frequency Hearing Loss.

Purpose: The significance of extended high-frequency (EHF) hearing (> 8 kHz) is not well understood so far. In this study, we aimed to understand the relationship between EHF hearing loss (EHFHL) and speech perception in noise (SPIN) and the associated physiological signatures using the speech-evoked frequency-following response (sFFR).

Method: Sixteen young adults with EHFHL and 16 age- and sex-matched individuals with normal hearing participated in the study.

Listening to speech-in-noise with hearing aids: Do the self-reported outcomes reflect the behavioral speech perception task performance?

Background: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between behavioral speech-in-noise listening tasks and self-reported speech-in-noise outcomes of hearing aid user adult listeners.

Method: To measure the self-reported outcomes of hearing, the Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults [HHI-A], Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) and Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap were employed. To screen the cognitive abilities, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) tool was used.

The role of suprathreshold auditory processing abilities in children with specific learning disorder.

Objective: To assess the suprathreshold auditory processing and speech recognition abilities in noise in children with specific learning disorder (SLD).

Methods: A group of twenty-five children diagnosed with SLD and a control group of twenty-five neuro-typical children were included in the study. All the participants were between 6-11 years old.

Multi-feature mismatch negativity: How can reliable data be recorded in a short time?

Objective: The aim of the study was to conduct multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) implementations and identify via a test-retest study the reliability of MMN responses obtained through a 5-stimulus version of the MMN paradigm. It was also aimed to identify a reliable MMN recording number by comparing the MMN responses obtained under conditions of ten and four recordings conditions while making the recording time shorter.

Methods: Twenty-one healthy volunteers, aged between 18 and 36 years, were included in the study.

Development of speech intelligibility in geriatric individuals with hearing loss.

Background: In our study, we aimed to evaluate the hearing aid benefit and speech intelligibility with hearing aids using objective and subjective measurements, according to the type of hearing loss in elderly individuals who used different types of hearing aids.

Methods: The objective and subjective findings from a total of 47 elderly individuals between the ages of 60 and 84, who used regular hearing aids for at least six months, and who were diagnosed with different types and degrees of hearing loss were evaluated by scanning them retrospectively.

Results: : In our study, the Adaptive Turkish matrix sentence test (ATMST) was carried out with binaural headphones, and a statistically significant difference was observed between the ATMST scores of individuals with symmetrical hearing loss.

Cochlear synaptopathy causes loudness perception impairment without hearing loss.

Purpose: In this study, the development of a quantitative measurement method to predict long-term auditory adaptation through the stimuli that have been modulated according to different short-term modulation types was aimed to form a psychoacoustic test battery. It might be used in the evaluation process of individuals with hidden hearing loss.

Methods: The individuals participating in our study were separated into two groups: high-risk group (n = 39) and low-risk group (n = 30) according to the noise-exposure score.

Gender Effects on Binaural Speech Auditory Brainstem Response.

Background: The speech auditory brainstem response is a tool that provides direct information on how speech sound is temporally and spectrally coded by the auditory brainstem. Speech auditory brainstem response is influenced by many variables, but the effect of gender is unclear, particularly in the binaural recording. Studies on speech auditory brainstem response evoked by binaural stimulation are limited, but gender studies are even more limited and contradictory.

Auditory brainstem response in unilateral tinnitus patients: does symmetrical hearing thresholds and within-subject comparison affect responses?

Objective: In recent studies, cochlear synaptopathy has been suggested as a potential pathophysiology mechanism for tinnitus, which occurs in individuals with normal hearing thresholds. Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) is a noninvasive method frequently used in the literature to evaluate cochlear synaptopathy in tinnitus patients. However, possible factors such as high-frequency pure-tone hearing thresholds, age, gender, and head characteristics that may affect ABR were not considered sufficiently in previous studies.

The mismatch negativity responses of individuals with tinnitus with normal extended high-frequency hearing-is it possible to use mismatch negativity in the evaluation of tinnitus?

Objective: This study uses the multi-feature paradigm to compare the MMN responses of individuals with normal hearing thresholds, including the high frequencies with and without tinnitus.

Methods: Sixteen subjects with chronic subjective idiopathic tinnitus and twenty matched healthy controls were included in the study. Participants with hearing thresholds (0.

Evaluation of temporal and suprasegmental auditory processing in patients with unilateral hearing loss.

Objectives: To determine the temporal order, resolution, and perception of prosody skills in Single-Sided Deafness (SSD) compared to an age- and sex-matched normal hearing group's same side ear and both ears.

Methods: This was a Case-Control study including 30 subjects with SSD, and age- and sex-matched 30 subjects with bilateral normal hearing (total of 60 subjects- mean age: 38.7 ± 11.

Evaluation of auditory temporal processing in patients fitted with bone-anchored hearing aids.

Purpose: The present study aimed to identify temporal processing abilities in users of bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA).

Methods: Seventeen subjects with BAHA (SWB) users and 29 subjects with normal-hearing were compared using the frequency pattern test, duration pattern test, and speech-in-noise test. Besides behavioral temporal processing tests, a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) test was performed in BAHA users to assess the accuracy of objective auditory discrimination at the cortical level, irrespective of the subjects' attention or behavioral task.

Audiological findings in Noonan syndrome.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate audiologic properties of patients with Noonan syndrome and compare these findings with those of unaffected peers.

Methods: The study included 17 children with Noonan syndrome and 20 typically developing children without Noonan syndrome. Pure tone and speech audiometry, immitancemetric measurement, otoacoustic emissions measurement and auditory brainstem response tests were applied to all (n = 37) children.

Evaluation of hearing and speech-language in preschool children: how important, why we should perform?

The aim of the study was to present the hearing and speech-language findings of preschool children. The children in this study were aged 3-5 years. Sixtyseven of 239 children (28.

The role of the medial olivocochlear system in the complaints of understanding speech in noisy environments by individuals with normal hearing.

Objective: The aim of our study is to investigate the relationship between the complaint of speech understanding in noisy environments and the findings of contralateral suppression of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions and speech recognition in noise test methods in individuals with normal hearing.

Methods: Sixty-nine subjects between 18 and 53 years of age with normal hearing participated in the present study. The subjects were assigned to one of two groups, reported difficulty understanding speech in noise or no reported difficulty understanding speech in noise.

Functional and structural evaluation of hearing in acromegaly.

Context: The impact of acromegaly on the auditory system remains unknown.

Objective: This study aimed to examine audiological symptoms and the structure and function of the auditory system in patients with acromegaly. DESIGN/SETTING AND PATIENTS:  The study included 44 patients with acromegaly.