Understanding hair cells
Subtitle: the key to understanding hearing loss : proceedings from the Fifth Annual Research Symposium given at the 13th International SHHH Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, June 15, 1998
By:  editor Barbara Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Barbara.; Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.; International SHHH Convention (13th : 1998 : Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Hearing disorders -- Congresses.; Hair cells -- Congresses.; Cochlear implants -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The biology of cochlear supporting cells and their critical role in hearing / Michael J. McKenna, and Joe C. Adams; value: Can hair cells be made to regrow after cochlear damage? / Douglas A. Cotanche; value: Why hair cell damage makes speech hard to understand and what we may be able to do about it / Eric D. Young; value: "I can hear what people say but I can't understand them"; value: if your hair cells are damaged and won't regrow, how can you hear in noise? / Mead C. Killion; value: When amplification doesn't work for certain frequency regions and a possible solution / Christopher W. Turner; value: How is the brain affected by hearing loss and use of a cochlear implant / Patricia A. Leake.