1.2 Audiology and Physics of Hearing Description: The

PhD-Programme “Auditory Sciences: Physics and Engineering, Physiology and Therapy of Hearing”
1.2 Audiology and Physics of Hearing
Description: The course is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral investigators,
students of medicine, physics and bioengineering. It aims to introduce the topic of clinical
audiological methods to an interdisciplinary audience including engineers,
neurologists/neurosurgeons and ENT specialists and psychologists.
In that course the following topics will be covered:
1. The physiological basis of hearing I
a. Physics
i. Speed of sound
ii. Acoustic impedance and reflection
iii. Spatial hearing
iv. Middle ear
2. The physiological basis of hearing II
a. The basilar membrane and cochlear micromechanics
i. Outer hair cells
ii. Recruitment
iii. The efferent system
3. Subjective tests
a. Pure tone audiometry
i. Adults
ii. Children
b. Speech testing in audiometry
4. Objective tests in audiometry
a. Tympanometry
b. Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE, TEOAE, DPOAE)
c. Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR)
d. Cortical Evoked Response Audiometry (CERA)
5. Hearing screening
6. Hearing aids
7. Cochlea implants
a. Electric stimulation of the cochlea
b. Optical stimulation of the cochlea
c. Electro-Acoustic Stimulation (EAS)
8. New applications in hearing aids
a. Contra Lateral Routing of Signals (CROS)
b. Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
c. Implantable hearing aids
i. Sensorineural hearing loss
ii. Conductional hearing loss and Atresia
iii. Combined (mixed) hearing loss
9. Genetic mechanisms of hearing loss and deafness
a. Connexins
b. Potassium homeostasis and recycling
c. Auditory neuropathy
10. Intra Operative (IOM) and facial nerve Monitoring
Date: 21.-22.05.2015
PhD-Programme “Auditory Sciences: Physics and Engineering, Physiology and Therapy of Hearing”
21:05: 9:00 am – 12:00, 01:00-4:00 pm; 22.05.: 9:00 am – 01:00 pm
Place: Hannover, conference room 2nd floor 2006, “HZH-GmbH” (VIANNA-building)
Course organizer: Prof. Hannes Maier
Credit: 10 hours
Registration: kaiser.odett@mh-hannover.de
Deadline: until 17.04.15