Advances in Noise Research Biological Effects of Noise [Hardcover]

The series entitled Advances in Noise Research has developed from the European Commission Concerted Action Programme on Protection Against Noise (PAN) The first volume in the series is devoted to the biological effects of noise and covers six main topics: physiological mechanisms, diagnosis, otoacoustic emissions, tinnitus, pharmacology and non-auditory effects in relation to noise.Acknowelegements.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Introduction.

PART 1: PHYSIOLOGY.

Chapter 1. Noice-induced hearing loss: current physiological investigations (Jean-Luc Puel and Remy Pujol).

Chapter 2. Spiral ganglion cell loss and survival after total hair cell destruction in the guinea-pig cochlea (Hilary C. Dodson).

Chapter 3. Evidence for functional reorganization in the central auditory system after acoustic overstimulation (Richard J. Salvi, Jian Wang and Chun Xiao Qiu).

Chapter 4. Modulating auditory sensitivity to noise trauma by sound conditioning (Barbara Canlon, Anette Fransson and Safak Dagli).

Chapter 5. The role of the acoustic reflex in the development of resistance to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in humans (Vittorio Colletti and Francesco Fiorino).

Chapter 6. Pigmentation and noise-induced hearing loss: is the relationship between pigmentation and noise-induced hearing loss due to an ototoxic pheomelanin interaction or to otoprotective eumelanin effects? (Marie-Louise Barrenas).

Chapter 7. Audiometric and electrophysiological changes caused by drilling of the skull base (Vittorio Colletti, Francesco G. Fiorino, Nadia Giarbini and Zeno Policante).

PART 2: DIAGNOSIS OF NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS.

Chapter 8. The clinical diagnosis of noise-induced hearing loss (Linda M. Luxon).

Chapter 9. Contralateral suppression of ABR and ls/