Schwerhörigkeit im Alter: Was steckt dahinter?

BIOspektrum - Tập 29 Số 4 - Trang 341-344 - 2023
Christine Köppl1, Georg M. Klump2
1Department für Neurowissenschaften, Research Center for Neurosensory Sciences Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität, Oldenburg, Deutschland
2Department für Neurowissenschaften, Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Deutschland

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AbstractAge-related hearing loss is of increasing concern in our ageing society. However, a causal understanding of the manifold degenerative processes in the cochlea and auditory brain, and their relation to specific hearing problems, is still in its infancy. Gerbils that are trained to perform auditory tasks show very similar auditory perception to humans, including in tests with speech-like signals. This offers a unique opportunity to experimentally probe age-related changes in perception and the underlying neural pathologies.

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