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Open AccessThe association of hearing loss with frailty among community-dwelling older adults: findings from the National Health and Aging Trends Study
The identification of modifiable risk factors is crucial for the prevention and/or reversal of frailty, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hearing loss affects two-thirds of older ad...
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Otolith Membrane Herniation, not Semicircular Canal Duct Dilation, Is Associated with Decreased Caloric Responses in Ménière’s Disease
Ménière’s disease (MD) is a debilitating disorder with unclear pathophysiology whose diagnosis often relies on clinical judgment rather than objective testing. To complicate matters further, a dissociation has...
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Surgical Treatment of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome
Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is a clinical entity resulting in a myriad of audiological and vestibular symptoms. Pressure and/or sound-induced vertigo/nystagmus, autophony, conductive...
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Rhesus Cochlear and Vestibular Functions Are Preserved After Inner Ear Injection of Saline Volume Sufficient for Gene Therapy Delivery
Sensorineural losses of hearing and vestibular sensation due to hair cell dysfunction are among the most common disabilities. Recent preclinical research demonstrates that treatment of the inner ear with a var...
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Eye Movements Are Correctly Timed During Walking Despite Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction
Individuals with bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH) often report symptoms of oscillopsia (the perception that the world is bouncing or unstable) during walking. Efference copy/proprioception contributes t...
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Intratympanic (IT) Therapies for Menière’s Disease: Some Consensus Among the Confusion
Aminoglycosides and corticosteroids are commonly used to treat Menière’s disease. Intratympanic (IT) administration of these medications allows high inner ear concentrations without significant adverse systemi...
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A novel and inexpensive digital system for eye movement recordings using magnetic scleral search coils
After their introduction by Robinson (IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 10:137–145, 1963), magnetic scleral search coils quickly became an accepted standard for precise eye movement recordings. While other techniques such as...
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Histopathologic Changes of the Inner ear in Rhesus Monkeys After Intratympanic Gentamicin Injection and Vestibular Prosthesis Electrode Array Implantation
Bilateral vestibular deficiency (BVD) due to gentamicin ototoxicity can significantly impact quality of life and result in large socioeconomic burdens. Restoring sensation of head rotation using an implantable...
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Transmastoid galvanic stimulation does not affect the vergence-mediated gain increase of the human angular vestibulo-ocular reflex
Vergence is one of several viewing contexts that require an increase in the angular vestibular-ocular reflex (aVOR) response. A previous monkey study found that the vergence-mediated gain (eye/head velocity) i...
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Association of Skin Color, Race/Ethnicity, and Hearing Loss Among Adults in the USA
Epidemiologic studies of hearing loss in adults have demonstrated that the odds of hearing loss are substantially lower in black than in white individuals. The basis of this association is unknown. We hypothes...
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Vergence-mediated modulation of the human angular vestibulo-ocular reflex is unaffected by canal plugging
The angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (AVOR) normally has an increased response during vergence on a near target. Some lines of evidence suggest that different vestibular afferent classes may contribute differen...
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Gentamicin is Primarily Localized in Vestibular Type I Hair Cells after Intratympanic Administration
Intratympanic (IT) gentamicin injections are effective in the control of episodic vertigo due to Ménière’s disease. Histological studies in animals have found that the loss of type I vestibular hair cells far ...
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Axis of Eye Rotation Changes with Head-Pitch Orientation during Head Impulses about Earth-Vertical
The goal of this study was to assess how the axis of head rotation, Listing's law, and eye position influence the axis of eye rotation during brief, rapid head rotations. We specifically asked how the axis of ...
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Orientation of Human Semicircular Canals Measured by Three-Dimensional Multiplanar CT Reconstruction
Analysis of vestibulo-ocular reflex experiments requires knowledge of the absolute orientations (with respect to skull landmarks) of semicircular canals (SCC). Data relating SCC orientations to accessible skul...
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Vergence-mediated modulation of the human horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex is eliminated by a partial peripheral gentamicin lesion
The angular vestibulo-ocular reflex normally has an increased response during vergence on a near target. Surgical unilateral vestibular deafferentation reduces the horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) in r...
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Changes in the Three-Dimensional Angular Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex following Intratympanic Gentamicin for Ménière's Disease
The 3-dimensional angular vestibulo-ocular reflexes (AVOR) elicited by rapid rotary head thrusts were studied in 17 subjects with unilateral Ménière's disease before and 2–10 weeks after treatment with intraty...
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Functional Recovery of Anterior Semicircular Canal Afferents following Hair Cell Regeneration in Birds
