The Journey of Hearing and Hearing-Related Disorders over Time

Dear Colleagues,

We want to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue on "The Journey of Hearing and Hearing-Related Disorders over Time".

Hearing is a critical sense, which is a prerequisite for interpersonal communication, perception of the environment, and social interaction. However, hearing competence is not a stable capability but changes over time due to various reasons such as aging, acquired diseases, infections, environmental influences, and more.

Loss of hearing or the development of hearing-related disorders (e.g., tinnitus or hyperacusis) can lead to significant changes in the auditory stimulation to the brain, the perception of the environment and can trigger behavioral changes in the affected persons. These changes can be understood as a dynamic process developing over time. In principle, we distinguish the natural process over time from processes with interventions (e.g., correction for hearing loss or treatment of the hearing-related disorder).

In this Special Issue, we want to collect scientific work that helps to understand better the development of hearing and/or hearing-related disorders over time as well as influencing factors for this temporal development and how different treatment strategies can improve the impairment or the perceived disability of the affected people. Also, methods suitable to study those processes over time, like ecological momentary assessment are of interest.

We welcome original research articles and systematic reviews on the development of hearing or hearing-related disorders (e.g., tinnitus or hyperacusis) over time, the impact of an interaction between hearing loss and hearing-related disorders on the progress, the influence of potential treatments and methods to evaluate progression of hearing loss over time.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Schlee
Dr. Jorge Piano Simões
Guest Editors

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