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Ranjan, Rajesh
- Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Response in Acquired Sensory Neural Hearing Loss
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 3, No 5 (2014), Pagination:Abstract
Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) are widely used for assessment of vestibular function in individuals with balance disorders. However it is possible that hearing loss, if present, may affect the vestibular response. Hence, there is a need to understand the effect of various degrees of hearing loss on VEMP. Thus the present study was carried out to investigate the effects of degree of sensori-neural hearing loss on VEMP.A total of 31 individuals with hearing loss between 18 and 65 years participated in the study, and they were clustered in to four groups based on degree of hearing loss. VEMP was recorded from all the individuals using click at 95 dB nHL from both the ears. The result showed reduction in the amplitude of p1-n1 among individuals with hearing impairment however the reduction was not statistically significant across the groups. We conclude that degree of hearing loss may not be a significant factor in assessment of vestibular disorders using VEMP.
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Degree of hearing loss, Hearing impairment, cVEMP- Effect of Type II Diabetes on Speech Perception in Noise
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 3, No 4 (2014), Pagination:Abstract
There is dearth of literature targeting the behavioral correlates to central auditory processing among individuals with Diabetes. As communication being crucial aspect of human existence and losing the skill to effectively communicate adversely affects quality of life (QoL).So the present study was undertaken with the aim to examine the effect of type II Diabetes on speech perception in noise. A total of 80 subjects equally divided in to experimental and control group participated in this research. Experimental group consisted of 40 individuals with Diabetes (TYPE II) diagnosed for minimum five years between the age range of 28 – 60 years, with a mean age of 44years with equal gender representation. The effect of Diabetes on speech perception abilities among individuals with greater than 5 years of diabetic age, results revels a statistically significant difference between both the groups with p value < 0.01 for speech perception task and also there was association between the age of diabetes and the quick SIN scores for individuals with diabetes. We hypothesize that reduced sensory processing ability which could be due to involvement of various structures of central nervous system might have contributed to poor speech understanding abilities in diabetics individuals.