Hearing Loss: Mechanisms, Prevention and Cure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, Huawei (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chai, Renjie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1130
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Molecular biology.; Molecular Medicine.

This book systematically discusses the pathogenesis, prevention, and the current and potential clinical treatment of hearing loss, as well as the latest advances in hearing research. Hearing loss is a prevalent sensory disorder, which according to a 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) report affect...

Table of Contents:

• Hair cell regeneration
• Hair cell Protection against ototoxic drugs induced hearing loss
• Noise Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy and Ribbon Synapse Regeneration: repair process and therapeutic target
• Protection and prevention of age-related hearing loss
• Diagnosis, Intervention and Prevention of Genetic Hearing Loss
• Protection of spiral ganglion neurons and prevention of auditory neuropathy
• Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Tinnitus
• Cochlear implantation and rehabilitation
• Non-implantable artificial hearing technology
• Stem cells: a new hope for hearing loss therapy.