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Volume 8
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.
Wind Turbine Noise is NOT Damaging to Health
Dr Bob Harrison helps hearing health professionals, audiologists be aware and be prepared to answer questions about health effects of wind turbine noise.
Happy 20th Birthday for a Landmark Audiology Milestone in Canada
Bob shares his thoughts on how far we have come in recent years in our diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children.
Volume 6
From the Labs to the Clinics
Bob Harrison gives us a review of the many aspects of audiology where terminology is an issue. Sometimes important terms are misused, ambiguous or even lost!
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