Journal•ISSN: 0300-5364
British Journal of Audiology
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About: British Journal of Audiology is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Hearing loss & Hearing aid. It has an ISSN identifier of 0300-5364. Over the lifetime, 1035 publications have been published receiving 22760 citations.
Topics: Hearing loss, Hearing aid, Audiometry, Tinnitus, Otoacoustic emission
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TL;DR: Three thousand six hundred randomly selected adults in the city of Gothenburg (425,000 inhabitants) stratified by age and gender, were questioned by mail concerning tinnitus, receiving 66% useful answers.
Abstract: Three thousand six hundred randomly selected adults in the city of Gothenburg (425,000 inhabitants) stratified by age and gender, were questioned by mail concerning tinnitus. We received 66% useful answers, 14.2% suffered from tinnitus 'often' or 'always'. Tinnitus was more common in males than in females. Tinnitus was much more common in the left than in the right ear. 2.4% of the whole population suffered from the worst severity degree, 'tinnitus plagues me all day'. Tinnitus was clearly more common with hearing loss than with subjectively normal hearing. Sleep disturbances were common and increased with tinnitus severity. A majority of the questioned subjects wanted further examination and treatment.
714 citations
TL;DR: Linguistic guidelines for the design of sentences for speech audiometry with children are described, and new lists of test sentences which are based on such guidelines--the Bamford-Kowal-Bench Sentence Lists for Children--are introduced.
Abstract: Linguistic guidelines for the design of sentences for speech audiometry with children are described, and new lists of test sentences which are based on such guidelines–the Bamford-Kowal-Bench Sente...
701 citations
TL;DR: A neurophysiological approach to tinnitus is presented and it provides a basis for treating patients with hyperacusis, which is considering to be a pre-tinnitus state.
Abstract: This paper presents a neurophysiological approach to tinnitus and discusses its clinical implications. A hypothesis of discordant damage of inner and outer hair cells systems in tinnitus generation...
670 citations
TL;DR: The design and evaluation of a method for detecting and delimiting dead regions and the measurement of masked thresholds in TEN provides a quick and simple method for the diagnosis of dead regions are reported.
Abstract: Hearing impairment may sometimes be associated with complete loss of inner hair cells (IHCs) over a certain region of the basilar membrane. We call this a ‘dead region’. Amplification (using a hear...
431 citations
TL;DR: The results establish the basis of an efficient test of speech-reception disability in which measures are freed from the floor and ceiling effects encountered when percentage correct is used as the dependent variable.
Abstract: The intelligibility of sentences presented in noise improves when the listener can view the talker's face. Our aims were (a) to quantify this benefit, and (b) to relate it to individual differences among subjects in lipreading ability and among sentences in lipreading difficulty. Auditory and audiovisual speech-reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured in 20 listeners with normal hearing. Sixty sentences, selected to range in the difficulty with which they could be lipread (with vision alone) from easy to hard, were presented for identification in white noise. Using the ascending method of limits, the SRT was defined as the lowest signal-to-noise ratio at which all three ‘key words’ in each sentence could be identified correctly. Measured as the difference in dB between auditory-alone and audiovisual SRTs, ‘audiovisual benefit’ averaged 11 dB, ranging from 6 to 15 dB among subjects, and from 3 to 22 dB among sentences. As predicted, audiovisual benefit is a measure of lipreading ability. It was highly cor...
416 citations