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Compression: From Cochlea to Cochlear Implants
(Springer, New York, NY, 2004)
The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comp- hensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern au- tory research.The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing ...
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Cochlear Implants: Auditory Prostheses and Electric Hearing
(Springer, New York, NY, 2004)
Cochlear implants have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness. This book discusses the physiological bases of using artificial devices to electrically stimulate the auditory system ...
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Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications
(Springer, New York, NY, 2003)
Soun is nought but air y-broke —Geoffrey Chaucer end of the 14th century Traditionally, acoustics has formed one of the fundamental branches of physics. In the twentieth century, the ?eld has broadened considerably and ...
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Vertigo and Dizziness
(Springer, London, 2005)
After headache, vertigo and dizziness is the second most common complaint of patients. Vertigo is not a disease entity, but rather an unspecific syndrome consisting of various disorders with different causes. Most syndromes ...
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The Mammalian Cochlear Nuclei
(Springer, Boston, MA, 1993)
The presence of sophisticated auditory processing in mammals has permitted perhaps the most significant evolutionary development in humans: that of language. An understanding of the neural basis of hearing is thus a starting ...
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Cholesteatoma and Anterior Tympanotomy
(Springer, Tokyo, 1997)
Acquired aural cholesteatoma poses a unique procedural dilemma with regard to pathogenetic research and theory building. Because cholesteatoma spontane ously occurs only in the poorly pneumatized human ear, its pathogenesis ...
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The Cochlea
(Springer, New York, NY, 1996)
Knowledge about the structure and function of the inner ear is vital to an understanding of vertebrate hearing. This volume presents a detailed overview of the mammalian cochlea from its anatomy and physiology to its ...
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Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ
(Springer, Boston, MA, 1994)
Deafness is a "low incidence" disability and, therefore not studied or understood in the same way as other disabilities. Historically, research in deafness has been conducted by a small group of individuals who communicated ...
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Traumatology of the Skull Base
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1983)
As a result of its structure, the skull base forms a borderline between different medi cal and surgical specialties. Nevertheless, the pathology of the skull may involve crossing these boundaries. Consequently, treatment ...
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Surgery of the Skull Base
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1989)
The region of the skull base was long considered a surgical barrier because of its complex anatomy. With few exceptions, the region immediately beyond the dura or bony skull base constituted a "no man's land" for the surgeon ...