Research has shown that there are known associations between hearing loss and cognitive abilities. Cognitive decline has been seen to be accelerated in people with hearing loss. Several hypotheses exist regarding the underlying mechanisms driving the described associations. Science is currently trying to find the most likely explanation. One of the more researched hypotheses is that impoverished auditory input leads to decreased cognition - So can hearing aids delay the issue? The session will give an overview of the current state of knowledge.

This presentation will examine the pathophysiology of diabetes on hearing and balance as well as audiology medical management of diabetes associated hearing and balance issues. The course will look at the research we know and do not know, patient care and interprofessional collaboration around diabetes care.

DNA is one of the most important biomolecules in the cochlea. This course reveals that therapeutic manipulation of systems that protect cochlear DNA can prevent cell death and limit hearing loss.

This presentation will compare and contrast the pathophysiology of noise-induced hearing loss and retrocochlear hearing loss related to vestibular schwannoma. Diagnosis of vestibular schwannoma utilizing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will be discussed.

This course will discuss the anatomical structures and perceptual streams of the auditory cortex. It provides a review of how they make different contributions to the perception and production of speech and sound.

This course features selected webinars from the 12th annual AudiologyOnline noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) series, organized by guest editor Brian Fligor, ScD, PASC. Highlights include the latest research on NIHL, specifically how it relates to a musician's risk, diagnosis via telehealth, and treatment of tinnitus and hearing loss.

This course features clinicians from Purdue University presenting actual case studies on adult amplification with a range of audiological and medical diagnoses represented.

The human cognitive system is designed to process information and to inform the person about the nature of the environment that they are in. In this seminar, we will examine how that natural process is complicated when a person with hearing loss is attempting to understand spoken language.

A significant subset of patients seen in practices present with more severe hearing loss and more complex medical histories. In this seminar, the nature of severe hearing loss will be discussed along with a discussion of how to best match available technology choices (power devices, BiCROS, etc) to patient needs.

Hearing care professionals can gain valuable insights to what their patients’ initial listening experiences might be like simply by listening to the hearing aids. In a novel experiment designed to put Hearing Care Professionals in the shoes of their patients and to illustrate how sound quality can positively color the initial experience trying hearing aids, ReSound field representatives were trained to demo ReSound LiNX Quattro hearing aids on HCPs in a similar way that HCPs might do with their patients.