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.

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 course will discuss improved outcomes following cochlear implantation (CI) and the use of CI as an option for patients with single-sided deafness (SSD). Tools to determine subjective sound quality of CI will be reviewed.

A discussion of hearing loss in the broader context of health care, the many areas that may be impacted by hearing loss, and some initiatives underway to look at addressing hearing loss on a larger scale. This article is written in an engaging Q & A format.

A discussion of hearing loss in older adults and its relationship to dementia and cognitive decline, based on the findings of current research.