ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Improvement of Working Memory and Processing Speed in Patients over 70 with Bilateral Hearing Impairment Following Unilateral Cochlear Implantation.
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- Pure Tone Audiometry and Hearing Loss in Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Hearing Loss and Dementia: Risk Factor, Early Marker, or Both?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Effects of Hearing Intervention on Cognitive Function in Patients with Presbycusis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Audiology research · 2026Review
- Montreal cognitive assessment scores predict long-term speech recognition in noise and can be used to guide rehabilitation of cochlear implant users.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Verbal fluency after cochlear implantation: a longitudinal comparison with untreated hearing loss in the ELSA cohort.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- In Middle-Aged Adults, Cognitive Performance Improves After One Year of Auditory Rehabilitation with a Cochlear Implant.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological Assessments to Explore the Cognitive Impact of Cochlear Implants: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Evaluation of a non-auditory neurocognitive test battery in hearing-impaired according to age.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Cognitive processing speed improvement after cochlear implantation.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sustained Cognitive Improvement in Patients over 65 Two Years after Cochlear Implantation.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Polygenic Risk Score-Based Association Analysis of Speech-in-Noise and Hearing Threshold Measures in Healthy Young Adults with Self-reported Normal Hearing.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Article
- Effects of cochlear implantation on cognitive decline in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Listening with an Ageing Brain - a Cognitive Challenge.Laryngo- rhino- otologie · 2023Review
- Evaluating the Impact of Cochlear Implantation on Cognitive Function in Older Adults.The Laryngoscope · 2022Article
- Cognition and Cognitive Reserve in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Coupling of sensorimotor and cognitive functions in middle- and late adulthood.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Can cochlear implantation prevent cognitive decline in the long-term follow-up?Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Reported Hearing Loss in Alzheimer's Disease Is Associated With Loss of Brainstem and Cerebellar Volume.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Plasticity After Hearing Rehabilitation in the Aging Brain.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Several studies demonstrated the association of hearing disorders with neurocognitive deficits and dementia disorders, but little is known about the effects of auditory rehabilitation on the cognitive performance of the elderly. Therefore, the research question of the present study was whether cochlear implantation, performed in 21 patients over 70 with bilateral severe hearing impairment, could influence their cognitive skills. The measuring points were before implantation and 12 months after the first cochlear implant (CI) fitting. Evaluation of the working memory (WMI) and processing speed (PSI) was performed using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 4th edition (WAIS-IV). The audiological assessment included speech perception (SP) in quiet (Freiburg monosyllabic test; FMT), noise (Oldenburg sentence test; OLSA), and self-assessment inventory (Oldenburg Inventory; OI). Twelve months after the first CI fitting, not only the auditory parameters (SP and OI), but also the WMI and PSI, improved significantly (
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