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Volume 9

What Are These (Unusual) Images of Inner Ear Structures? A Picture Quiz.

Bob Harrison has picked out three unusual images that, as audiologists, you might recognize or not. Try to identify the structure before reading his detailed description.

To Seek Out the Facts, A Google Search May Not Be Enough

We have entered a period of uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump-era have revealed that too many fellow humans cannot easily tell fact from fiction or distinguish between scientific evidence and conspiracy theory. As a result, the media, political leaders, and those “in authority” can feed us fake news or real news, and many have difficulty recognizing the difference.

Volume 8

Something Important Requires Amplification in Clinical Audiology

Bob Harrison is “frustrated, fed up, and completely saddened” by the lack of attention to cochlear amplification in clinical audiology.

An Audiology Ripple Effect

In the history of audiology, many new ideas and methods have come and gone. Some things that were once new, are now gone and some brilliant methods to evaluate hearing, such as the Bekesy audiometry and the tone-decay test, appear to have been abandoned. I don’t know why because they were so informative.

New Methods for Getting Drugs, Stem Cells or Genes Into The Inner Ear

There are many reasons why it is desirable to get drugs and perhaps genetic materials into the cochlea including prevention or reduction of cochlear damage or promotion of the re-growth of cochlear neurons.

Conspiracy Theories, Fake News, Wind-Turbines, and Infrasound

We live in a very disturbing world where scientific evidence is sometimes called “fake news,” truth and lies are interchangeable, and a significant number of citizens believe conspiracy-theories, spread by social media. Sound familiar?

Cochlear Excitotoxicity 101

This article is about cochlear excitotoxicity, a topic that has recently become of interest to us in audiology because of its involvement in inner hair-cell synaptic damage (synaptopathy) caused by acoustic overstimulation.

Volume 7

Knowledge Translation from Research Labs to the Audiology Clinics: A Flow or Just a Trickle?

Bob Harrison muses about how the gap between audiological science and clinical audiology has not narrowed as much as he would have liked during his (45 year) career.

50 years of Audiology Research. Who Could Ask for Anything Moore?

Brian wrote his PhD thesis in 1971 and he is retiring at age 75? That would be 50 years worth of new knowledge to the field of audiology. Well done! Who could ask for anything Moore?

The Virus and Hearing Loss

With the whole world fixated on the viral epidemic, it is timely to remind ourselves about viral infections that can cause hearing loss.