Skin Flap Thickness in Cochlear Implant Patients

An article in Cochlear Implants International discusses various aspects of skin flap thickness.

FM Detection with Simultaneous AM by Cochlear Implant Users

A study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America investigated the abilities of CI users to detect FM with simultaneous amplitude modulation and found that FM and AM in CI partly share a common loudness-based coding mechanism and the feasibility of “FM+AM” strategies for CI speech processing may be limited.

Auditory Brainstem Activity and Bilateral Cochlear Implant Use

Latency in auditory brainstem response tended to resolve in children implanted <3 years of age but not in children implanted at older ages with long delays between implants.

Latency differences were projected to persist for longer periods in children with long delays between implants compared with children with short delays.

Preverbal Communication of Cochlear Implant Children

A recent article in International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology reached some tentative findings:

[I]n deaf implanted children under 1 year of age, some preverbal communication behaviors are developing to an extent (although at a somewhat lower level) not significantly different from those of age-matched normally hearing children.

Combined Electric and Contralateral Acoustic Hearing

An article in the Journal of Speech and Language Research finds that:

A full-insertion cochlear implant provides better speech understanding than bilateral, low-frequency residual hearing. The combination of an implant and contralateral acoustic hearing yields comparable performance to that of patients with a partially inserted implant and bilateral, low-frequency acoustic hearing. These data suggest that a full-insertion cochlear implant is a viable treatment option for patients with low-frequency residual hearing.

Cochlear Implant Fixation in Children Using Periosteal Sutures

Article describes a simple technique for implant receiver/stimulator (ICS) fixation that uses a seat for the cochlear implant device and suture fixation through the native cranial periosteum.

Michael Chorost Visits Burning Man

....being visited by Michael Chorost, author of Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human - one of the more inspirational books I have read.