Hearing Loss: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment—Volume II
A special issue of Audiology Research (ISSN 2039-4349). This special issue belongs to the section "Hearing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hearing rehabilitation; middle and inner ear; ear surgery; cochlear implantation; auditory brainstem responses; facial nerve electrophysiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This collection is a continuation of our previous successful Special Issue “Hearing Loss: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment”, published in the MDPI journal Audiology Research.
Hearing loss represents one of the most wide-ranging disabilities, affecting more than 5% of the world’s population. Different types of hearing loss, including conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, may lead to serious hearing impairments in children and adults. Multiple causes may be involved in the aetiopathogenesis of hearing loss, depending on the different biologic mechanisms, including congenital and autoimmune. Diagnosis and management continue to be a challenge for hearing disorders such as chronic otitis media, otosclerosis, cholesteatoma, congenital or acquired sensorineural hearing loss, sudden sensorineural or metabolic hearing loss, and otogenic facial palsy. Electrophysiology and neuroscience approaches are needed in order to better elucidate the diagnostic dilemmas in the field of otology and neurotology. New treatment options will be discussed to improve potential methods of hearing restoration.
We especially encourage submissions concerning hearing aids, cochlear/vestibular/auditory brainstem implantation, middle ear surgery, and stapedotomy. Topics may include the following:
- Age-related hearing loss;
- Genes associated with hearing loss;
- Speech perception testings;
- Pathophysiologic patterns for hearing loss;
- Neuroimaging for inner ear;
- Electrophysiologic evaluation of hearing loss;
- Surgery for hearing loss/cophosis.
Prof. Dr. George K. Psillas
Guest Editor
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Audiology Research is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- genetics
- speech perception
- conductive hearing loss
- sensorineural hearing loss
- neuroimaging
- electrophysiology
- cochlear implants
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