Listening Habits to Music during COVID-19 Pandemic: Is There a Risk to Hearing?

Background:  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic introduced a unique situation by consigning people to their homes, with free time for music listening, joined with increased anxiety and stress levels. The question arises whether listening habits to music have changed during the pandemic. Such a change in listening habits might pose a greater potential risk to hearing than in routine days.

Biomarkers of auditory cortical plasticity and development of binaural pathways in children with unilateral hearing loss using a hearing aid.

Congenital or early-onset unilateral hearing loss (UHL) can disrupt the normal development of the auditory system. In extreme cases of UHL (i.e.

The Prevalence of Hearing Impairments in Women with Silicone Breast Implants.

Many women with silicone breast implants (SBIs) report non-specific complaints, including hearing impairments. Hearing impairment appears to be associated with a number of autoimmune conditions. The current study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and severity of hearing impairments among women with SBIs and to explore potential improvements in their hearing capability following implant removal.

Opening a window into the riddle of misophonia, sensory over-responsiveness, and pain.

Introduction: Misophonia and sensory over-responsiveness (SOR) share physiological and psychological symptoms. While individuals with SOR demonstrate pain perception alterations, these were not explored in misophonia.

Methods: This exploratory study comprised thirty healthy adults with ( = 15; based on the Misophonia Questionnaire) and without misophonia.

A Clinical Paradigm for Listening Effort Assessment in Middle-Aged Listeners.

Listening effort (LE) has been known to characterize speech recognition in noise regardless of hearing sensitivity and age. Whereas the behavioral measure of dual-task paradigm effectively manifests the cognitive cost that listeners exert when processing speech in background noise, there is no consensus as to a clinical procedure that might best express LE. In order to assess the cognitive load underlying speech recognition in noise and promote counselling for coping strategies, a feasible clinical paradigm is warranted.

Perceived Sensitivity to Pain and Responsiveness to Non-noxious Sensation in Substance Use Disorder.

Objective: This comparative cross-sectional study aimed to characterize individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) in self-perception of pain sensitivity, experimental auditory aversiveness, and non-noxious sensory responsiveness, as well as examine the associations with SUD.

Methods: Therapeutic community (TC) individuals with SUD (N = 63, male 88.9%) and healthy controls (N = 60, male 86.

Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.

Objectives: To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data.

Design: Two stages: self-report listening habits questionnaire, and real-time monitoring of listening habits through a smartphone application.

Study Sample: Overall 117 participants aged 18-34 years (mean 25.

Evidence for a right cochlear implant advantage in simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation.

Objectives/hypothesis: To compare speech perception performance with right versus left cochlear implants (CIs) in children with bilateral CIs implanted simultaneously.

Study Design: Prospective case series of patients undergoing simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation.

Methods: Speech perception performance was tested in 10, right-handed children who received bilateral CIs simultaneously between 11 and 36 months (mean, 21 months), had at least 18 months of bilateral CI use, and were 5.

Hearing aid satisfaction and use in the advanced digital era.

Objectives/hypothesis: To evaluate satisfaction ratings and use patterns of advanced digital hearing aids (HAs) in a group of hearing-impaired adults by means of self-report questionnaires.

Study Design: A self report questionnaire study.

Methods: One hundred seventy-seven hearing-impaired adults who were fitted with advanced digital HAs at the Speech and Hearing Center at Sheba Medical Center were asked to participate in a structured telephone interview regarding HA satisfaction and use by means of the Satisfaction With Amplification in Daily Life (SADL) questionnaire.

Preferred listening levels of personal listening devices in young teenagers: self reports and physical measurements.

Objective: To assess the potential risk of hearing loss to young listeners, due to the use of personal listening devices (PLDs).

Design: The study included two parts: (1) A self-report questionnaire on music listening habits, and (2) Physical measurements of preferred listening levels, in quiet and in everyday background noise.

Study Sample: Young teenagers aged 13 to 17 years.

Cochlear implant recipients' hearing sensation as manifested by their maps during pregnancy and postpartum.

Objective: To investigate possible changes in hearing sensation as manifested in the maps' psychoacoustic parameters, threshold (T), and most comfortable (C/M) levels among cochlear implant (CI) female recipients during pregnancy and after delivery.

Setting: University-affiliated tertiary referral center.

Design: : Retrospective study.

Surgical and medical complications in paediatric cochlear implantation: a review of 300 cases.

The aim of the study was to investigate an incidence of surgical and medical complications in different age groups of cochlear implant children. A retrospective study design was used. Patients' medical records were reviewed for age at the time of implantation, cause of deafness and complications.

Identification of syllables in noise: electrophysiological and behavioral correlates.

This study was designed to characterize the effect of background noise on the identification of syllables using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Twenty normal-hearing adults (18-30 years) performed an identification task in a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm. Stimuli consisted of naturally produced syllables [da] and [ga] embedded in white noise.

A longitudinal study of electrical stimulation levels and electrode impedance in children using the Clarion cochlear implant.

Conclusions: Electrical stimulation levels and electrode impedance values (EIVs) in children using the Clarion cochlear implant (CI) programmed with CIS strategy stabilized after 3 months of implant use. The data presented here may be useful as a general guideline for the programming of infants and young children and may further be of help for the identification of patients who fall outside the "average" range.

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate changes in electrical stimulation levels, i.

Acute otitis media and mastoiditis following cochlear implantation.

Objective: To examine the incidence of acute otitis media (AOM) and mastoiditis in children after cochlear implantation (CI) and to evaluate the role of mastoidectomy in decreasing the rate of AOM in implanted children by comparing two surgical techniques: the Posterior tympanotomy approach (MPTA, with mastoidectomy) and the Suprameatal approach (SMA, without mastoidectomy).

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 234 children up to 16 years of age who underwent CI between 1993 and 2003 in our department. The children were divided into two groups according to the surgical technique that had been used for the implantation: the MPTA group and the SMA group.

Electrical stimulation levels and electrode impedance values in children using the Med-El Combi 40+ cochlear implant: a one year follow-up.

The present study was designed to follow changes in electrical stimulation levels and electrode impedance values (EIV) in children using the Med-El Combi 40+ cochlear implant (CI) during the first 12 months of implant use. The maps of 24 prelingually deaf children implanted at a mean age of 5.9 years (range 1-15.

Speech perception of children using Nucleus, Clarion or Med-El cochlear implants.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to present speech perception achievements of implanted children using commercially available cochlear implant devices: Nucleus, Clarion or Med-El.

Study Design: A retrospective analysis.

Methods: Speech perception data of 96 hearing-impaired children: 27 with Clarion, 49 with Nucleus and 20 with Med-El were collected.

NRT-based versus behavioral-based MAP: a comparison of parameters and speech perception in young children.

The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of neural response telemetry (NRT)-based cochlear implant (CI) programming versus behavioral-based programming on electrical stimulation parameters (MAP) threshold (T) and comfortable (C) levels and speech perception abilities in young children, during the first year of implant use. Ten congenitally deaf children at the age of 12-39 months (mean age: 25.2 months) implanted with the Nucleus 24R(CS) CI participated in the study.

Changes over time in the psycho-electric parameters in children with cochlear implants.

Information regarding typical changes in electrical stimulation levels during different stages post-implantation in children is scarce. Clinically, this information can serve as a general guideline to the nature and frequency of these changes, and consequently help to determine programming schedules that would optimize performance with the implant. Furthermore, it may have implications for the design of cochlear implants, and for monitoring the condition of the implanted cochlea.

Changes over time in electrical stimulation levels and electrode impedance values in children using the Nucleus 24M cochlear implant.

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate changes in psycho-electric parameters, i.e. threshold levels, comfortable levels, dynamic range, and electrode impedance values during the 1st year post-implantation, in children using the Nucleus 24M cochlear implant system.