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Jennifer Gonzalez, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A Speech and Hearing Sciences, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury or mTBI, encompasses injuries caused by bumps, blows, or jolts to the head or body resulting in rapid movement of the head and brain(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). Concussion injuries induce chemical changes in

Frank Musiek, PhD   Background Masking level differences (MLDs), also termed bilateral masking level differences (BMLDs), were introduced to the scientific community by Ira Hirsh and J.C.R. Licklider in independent reports in 1948. Hirsh reported on MLDs for tonal stimuli and Licklider for speech stimuli. Though it is not the intent of this brief communication to address methodological facets of

Frank Musiek, PhD University of Arizona   Introduction Recently, one of our articles was published in the International Journal of Audiology (IJA) pertaining to central deafness [Musiek, F., Chermak, G., & Cone, B. (2019). Central Deafness: A Review of Past and Current Perspectives. International Journal of Audiology, 58, 605 – 617]. Much to our delight, it has received considerable attention.

Editors Note: Ocassionally Pathways will offer an historical account of someone who has made outstanding contributions to our field of neuroaudiology who is not an audiologist. Clinton Woolsey is one of those people he was a renounded neuroanatomist/neurophysiologist . Here is a nice review by Kylie Boyd.   Kylie Boyd, B.S., B.A. Au.D. Student, University of Arizona, Dept. of Speech,

Annette Hurley, PhD., CCC-A, Dept. of Communication Disorders LSU Health Sciences Center, [email protected]   Introduction Dichotic listening tests are one of the most frequently used behavioral tests included in the behavioral Auditory Processing disorder (APD) test battery (Emanuel et al, 2011).  Dichotic tests are sensitive to the maturation and development of the central auditory nervous system (CANS), underlying lesions of the CANS,

Bill Keith, QSO, PhD   As audiologists we sometimes have to spend time persuading individuals that a member of their family does actually have a hearing disorder and isn’t just wilfully unresponsive. How often have you heard a significant other say of their partner with a sensorineural hearing loss “He can hear if he wants to. He just doesn’t listen.”?

by Bill Keith, QSO, PhD  One of the most exciting research findings in the treatment of auditory processing disorder (APD) is the neuroplastic benefit of amplification. Whereas hearing aid benefits are purely assistive in the case of peripheral hearing losses, it is now well established that, in the case of APD, amplification with remote microphone hearing aid systems (RMHAs) over

Frank Musiek, Ph.D.  It is well-known that highly reverberant rooms make communication difficult for all people.  This is especially the case for individuals with hearing loss and those with central auditory dysfunction. Highly reverberant rooms or hallways are often termed “echoey” by the lay public. Schools have recognized   this problem and do their best to reduce reverberation time in

Frank Musiek, Ph.D.   Some effects of temporal lobe damage and auditory perception is perhaps one of the most important articles in regard to the knowledge on not only dichotic listening, but also the effect of various auditory disorders and the related neural substrate on dichotic listening. Dr. Kimura was one of the first to actually test patients with confirmed

Editors note: On occasion, we will devote a Pathways column to asking questions to an expert in a particular area of audiology/hearing that may be interest to our readers. We are fortunate to pose questions to Dr. Pete Scheifele of the University of Cincinnati one of the foremost animal audiologists in the world. What is animal audiology? Animal audiology is