H90.4
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Normal-hearing subjects
Hearing test to measure speech recognition in background noise.
Positron emission tomography (PET) with acoustic, visual and sensorimotor stimulation
Group 2: Single-s
Sponsors
HNO-Uniklinik Freiburg
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: SSD CI recipients 1. diagnosed with SSD according to the definition of Vincent et al. (2015): hearing of the poorer ear: profound sensorineural hearing loss bordering on deafness; hearing of the better ear: air conduction hearing threshold in the range up to and including 4 kHz = 30 dB HL. 2. fitted with a CI on the right. 3. = 6 months of hearing experience with CI. NH subjects 1. hearing in both ears: Air conduction hearing threshold in the range 125-8000 Hz = 20 dB HL.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: All groups 1. age 65 years 2. left-handed 3. relevant neurological or psychiatric disease 4. medical conditions that would indicate inadequate compliance with PET 5. pregnancy, breast feeding, current desire to have children 6. past study-associated radiation exposure 7. occupational exposure to radiation 8. participants who refuse the report of incidental findings.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Which cortical areas show neuronal activity during auditory, visual, and somatosensory stimulation in [15O]water PET examination? | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Collection of significant differences between the SSD CI subjects and the NH subjects. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactIva Speck
HNO-Uniklinik Freiburg
Outcome results
None listed