ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2022
Neural Plasticity Induced by Hearing Aid Use.
Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Auditory Acclimatization in New Adult Hearing Aid Users: A Registered Systematic Review of Magnitude, Key Variables, and Clinical Relevance.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of cochlear implantation on gait performance in adults with hearing impairment: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Performance of hybrid gain formula versus traditional fitting formulas in hearing aid fitting in tinnitus patients with hearing loss.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 · 2024Trial
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- Hearing Loss and Dementia: Risk Factor, Early Marker, or Both?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Preoperative Hearing Aids Improve Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation.Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology · 2026Article
- Aging in the Primary Auditory Cortex.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Review
- Short-term hearing aid use reduces auditory cortical responses to speech-in-noise listening among older adults with age-related hearing loss.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- The protective role of hearing aids on delayed recall and spatial orientation in age-related hearing loss.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Impact of Hearing Loss Severity on Hearing Aid Benefit Among Adult Users.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Zinc-Air Hearing Aid Batteries: An Analysis of Functional Performance.Audiology research · 2024Article
- Change in the Characteristics of Patients Qualified for Hearing Aids over the Last 25 Years in Poland.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Auditory Perceptual Exercises in Adults Adapting to the Use of Hearing Aids.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Age-related hearing loss is one of the most prevalent health conditions in older adults. Although hearing aid technology has advanced dramatically, a large percentage of older adults do not use hearing aids. This untreated hearing loss may accelerate declines in cognitive and neural function and dramatically affect the quality of life. Our previous findings have shown that the use of hearing aids improves cortical and cognitive function and offsets subcortical physiological decline. The current study tested the time course of neural adaptation to hearing aids over the course of 6 months and aimed to determine whether early measures of cortical processing predict the capacity for neural plasticity. Seventeen (9 females) older adults (mean age = 75 years) with age-related hearing loss with no history of hearing aid use were fit with bilateral hearing aids and tested in six testing sessions. Neural changes were observed as early as 2 weeks following the initial fitting of hearing aids. Increases in N1 amplitudes were observed as early as 2 weeks following the hearing aid fitting, whereas changes in P2 amplitudes were not observed until 12 weeks of hearing aid use. The findings suggest that increased audibility through hearing aids may facilitate rapid increases in cortical detection, but a longer time period of exposure to amplified sound may be required to integrate features of the signal and form auditory object representations. The results also showed a relationship between neural responses in earlier sessions and the change predicted after 6 months of the use of hearing aids. This study demonstrates rapid cortical adaptation to increased auditory input. Knowledge of the time course of neural adaptation may aid audiologists in counseling their patients, especially those who are struggling to adjust to amplification. A future comparison of a control group with no use of hearing aids that undergoes the same testing sessions as the study's group will validate these findings.
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