Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (40))

Exposure to loud noise continues to be the largest cause of hearing loss in the adult population. The problem of NIHL impacts a number of disciplines. US standards for permissible noise exposure were originally published in 1968 and remain largely unchanged today. Indeed, permissible noise exposure for US personnel is significantly greater than that allowed in numerous other countries, including for example, Canada, China, Brazil, Mexico, and the European Union. However, there have been a number of discoveries and advances that have increased our understanding of the mechanisms of NIHL. These advances have the potential to impact how NIHL can be prevented and how our noise standards can be made more appropriate. Exposure to loud noise continues to be one of the largest causes of hearing loss in the adult population, already affecting some 15 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 69. There have been a number of discoveries and advances that have increased our understanding of the mechanisms of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). These advances have the potential to impact how NIHL can be prevented and how our noise standards can be made more appropriate. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss describes the effect of environmental noise on hearing, provides important background on the subject, and also explores the broader issues currently arising on effects of noise on non-human vertebrates. Perspectives on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Colleen G. Le Prell and Donald Henderson The Public Health Significance of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Peter M. Rabinowitz Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: Challenges for the Military Marjorie A.M. Grantham The Use of Kurtosis Measurement in the Assessment of Potential Noise Trauma Donald Henderson and Roger P. Hamernik Noise-Induced Structural Damage to the Cochlea Bohua Hu Neural Coding of Sound with Cochlear Damage Eric D. Young Suprathreshold Auditory Processing in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Mini N. Shrivastav The Neurobiology of Noise-Induced Tinnitus James A. Kaltenbach and Ryan Manz Effects of Early Noise Exposure on Subsequent Age-Related Changes in Hearing Eric C. Bielefeld Effects of Exposure to Chemicals on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Thais C. Morata and Ann-Christin Johnson Hearing Protection Devices: Regulation, Current Trends, and Emerging Technologies John G. Casali Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Potential Therapeutic Agents Colleen G. Le Prell and Jianxin Bao Frontiers in the Treatment of Hearing Loss Tatsuya Yamasoba, Josef M. Miller, Mats Ulfendahl, and Richard A. Altschuler About the Editors Colleen Le Prell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Director of the Hearing Research Center at the University of Florida. Donald Henderson is a Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Arthur N. Popper is a Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. About the Series: The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of synthetic reviews of fundamental topics dealing with auditory systems. Each volume is independent and authoritative; taken as a set, this series is the definitive resource in the field Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Perspectives on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Public Health Significance of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss....Pages 13-25 Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: Challenges for the Military....Pages 27-38 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 The Use of Kurtosis Measurement in the Assessment of Potential Noise Trauma....Pages 41-55 Noise-Induced Structural Damage to the Cochlea....Pages 57-86 Neural Coding of Sound with Cochlear Damage....Pages 87-135 Suprathreshold Auditory Processing in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss....Pages 137-150 The Neurobiology of Noise-Induced Tinnitus....Pages 151-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Genes That Influence Susceptibility to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss....Pages 179-203 Effects of Early Noise Exposure on Subsequent Age-Related Changes in Hearing....Pages 205-221 Effects of Exposure to Chemicals on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss....Pages 223-254 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Hearing Protection Devices: Regulation, Current Trends, and Emerging Technologies....Pages 257-283 Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Potential Therapeutic Agents....Pages 285-338 Frontiers in the Treatment of Hearing Loss....Pages 339-367 Back Matter....Pages 369-376 Perspectives on noise-induced hearing loss / Colleen G. Le Prell and Donald Henderson The public health significance of noise-induced hearing loss / Peter M. Rabinowitz Noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus: challenges for the mlitary / Marjorie A. M. Grantham The use of kurtosis measurement in the assessment of potential noise trauma / Donald Henderson and Roger P. Hamernik Noise-induced structural damage to the cochlea / Bohua Hu Neural coding of sound with cochlear damage / Eric D. Young Suprathreshold auditory processing in noise-induced hearing loss / Mini N. Shrivastav The neurobiology of noise-induced tinnitus / James A. Kaltenbach and Ryan Manz Effects of early noise exposure on subsequent age-related changes in hearing / Eric C. Bielefeld Effects of exposure to chemicals on noise-induced hearing loss / Thais C. Morata and Ann-Christin Johnson Hearing protection devices: regulation, current trends, and emerging technologies / John G. Casali Prevention of noise-induced hearing loss : potential therapeutic agents / Colleen G. Le Prell and Jianxin Bao Frontiers in the treatment of hearing loss / Tatsuya Yamasoba, Josef M. Miller, Mats Ulfendahl, and Richard A. Altschuler Annotation This volume combines different methodological and experimental approaches to provide an important contemporary reference work on noise-induced hearing loss