Auditory Trauma, Protection, and Repair

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schacht, Jochen (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 31
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Pathology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

The past decade has brought great advances in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying auditory pathologies. Molecular biology and genetics have primarily contributed to this enhanced understanding, which in turn has driven the design of novel rational therapeutic interventions. Auditory Traum...

Table of Contents:

• Auditory Pathology: When Hearing is Out of Balance
• Genetics of Hearing Loss
• Cochlear Homeostasis and Homeostatic Disorders
• Tinnitus: Theories Mechanisms and Treatments
• Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
• Age-Related Hearing Loss and Its Cellular and Molecular Bases
• Patterns and Mechanisms of Noise-Induced Cochlear Pathology
• Drug-Induced Hearing Loss
• Central Consequences of Cochlear Trauma
• Cell Death and Cochlear Protection
• Emerging Strategies for Restoring the Cochlea.