Did our cochlear implant program make any difference in the lives of our patients? Achievements of 30 patients with long term follow-up averaging 20 years after cochlear implantation.

Background: Cochlear implants are standard of care for the patients with sensorineural hearing loss not benefited from hearing aids.

Aims: Evaluate qualitatively the impact of cochlear implantation in the long-term.

Materials-methods: Thirty middle-class patients with similar patterns of loss and social environment averaging 20 years post-implantation responded to 52 questions that evaluated psychosocial benefits from cochlear implantation.

Clinical performance of the Osia™ system, a new active osseointegrated implant system. Results from a prospective clinical investigation.

Bone-conduction hearing implants are standard of care devices. Evaluation of a new active magnetic bone-conduction hearing implant: Cochlear Osia™ system. This device uses a transcutaneous connection between an external sound-processor and an osseointegrated implant that generates vibrations using a piezoelectricity-based internal bone-conduction system.

Chances of reversibility in early sensory deprivation of the Homo vulnerabilis: A 5-year (and ongoing) prospective study.

Background: This prospective study evaluated the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program in vulnerable children with language deficits.

Aims/objectives: Evaluating reversibility of a sensory understimulation.

Material/methods: Two groups of five students, each, (sensory and not sensory deprived) were evaluated at ages 5 and 11.

Central auditory processing. Are the emotional perceptions of those listening to classical music inherent in the composition or acquired by the listeners?

Conclusions: There is seemingly some inherent component in selected musical compositions that elicits specific emotional perceptions, feelings, and physical conduct.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to determine if the emotional perceptions of those listening to classical music are inherent in the composition or acquired by the listeners.

Methods: Fifteen kindergarten students, aged 5 years, from three different sociocultural groups, were evaluated.

Musical brains: a study of spontaneous and evoked musical sensations without external auditory stimuli.

Conclusions: Our observations confirm that musical sensations with no external stimuli, either spontaneous or evoked, occur in normal individuals and that a biological substrate can be demonstrated by brain single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

Objectives: There are individuals, usually musicians, who are seemingly able to evoke and/or have spontaneous musical sensations without external auditory stimuli. However, to date there is no available evidence to determine if it is feasible to have musical sensations without using external sensory receptors, or if there is a biological substrate for these sensations.