TY - JOUR
T1 - Cochlear implants and other inner ear prostheses
T2 - today and tomorrow
AU - Reiss, Lina AJ
N1 - Funding Information:
Funds supporting this work were provided by a grant R01 DC013307 from the National Institutes of Deafness and Communication Disorders , National Institutes of Health .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Cochlear implants (CIs) are implantable auditory prostheses designed to restore access to sound in deaf individuals via direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. While CIs have been successful in restoring speech perception to many deaf patients, outcomes are variable and speech recognition in noise remains a problem. This chapter will review the factors underlying this variability, and discuss significant recent innovations to address these issues including neural health preservation, characterization, and regeneration, and other inner ear prostheses. The emerging role of central auditory plasticity will also be discussed. Together, these advances will point to the likely future directions for advancing the next generation of CIs and other inner ear prostheses.
AB - Cochlear implants (CIs) are implantable auditory prostheses designed to restore access to sound in deaf individuals via direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. While CIs have been successful in restoring speech perception to many deaf patients, outcomes are variable and speech recognition in noise remains a problem. This chapter will review the factors underlying this variability, and discuss significant recent innovations to address these issues including neural health preservation, characterization, and regeneration, and other inner ear prostheses. The emerging role of central auditory plasticity will also be discussed. Together, these advances will point to the likely future directions for advancing the next generation of CIs and other inner ear prostheses.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cophys.2020.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cophys.2020.08.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85089948831
SN - 2468-8681
VL - 18
SP - 49
EP - 55
JO - Current Opinion in Physiology
JF - Current Opinion in Physiology
ER -