Archives for Sensology and Neurootology in Science and Practice
Introduction: The human mainly regards himself within and together with his surrounding world straight forward through the windows of his senses. Thus he will not directly detect, that there are very complicated, but still existing elements in his surrounding, as well as within himself. The most obvious things, which he detects, are the world of […]
The International Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society, which has settled since 1974 at Bad Kissingen, Germany, is welcoming all of our guests from around the world. This year we are celebrating the 31st NES-Congress and especially the Pre-Congress Symposium in honour of our dear friend Prof. Antonio Cesarani from Milan and Sassari, Italy. Not only within […]
Introduction: Tinnitus is a common complaint of modern patients. In an epidemiologic survey on the population of Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham and South Hampton (1984) it has been reported that between 33,8% up to 39% of the persons answered positively to the general questions: “Have you ever noticed noises on your head or ears?” Within the […]
Zusammenfassung: Bad Kissingen ist seit einer Generation, d.h. seit 30 Jahren, Standort für die wissenschaftlichen Aktivitäten der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Neurootologie und Aequilibriometrie e.V. Damit ist Bad Kissingen die ausstrahlende Heimat der internationalen Neurootologie – jetzt z.B. des 1. Deutsch-amerikanischen Tinnituskurs am 24.3.2004. Ob unsere wissenschaftlichen Freunde und Tagungsteilnehmer als Gäste unserer Veranstaltungen aus Nord, […]
Vertigo is one of the most frequent clinical syndromes. According literature about 65 percent of patients in Western Europe coming to the primary health care physician complain on vertigo. The aim of our study was to evaluate the profile of vertigo and dizziness in patients of one Lithuanian regional primary health care institution. Specially designed […]
Aftercare of cochlear implant users, programming of the speech processor, the processor program’s most accurate possible and personalized settings are very important for the patients. The task is particularly hard in case of praelingually deaf subjects and in case of children. It has been a demand for long in audiometry to make the measurements independent […]
The operation of the speech processor plays a major role in the process of hearing with a cochlear implant. The speech processor must be programmed so that the hearing sensation that arises by electrical stimulation must be as close to the normal hearing sensation as possible. In the course of programming the speech processor one […]
The most important step during the fitting of the speech processor is to determine the electrical comfort and threshold levels, which implies a series of psychophysical measurements. The intensity of the current that evokes hearing experience (hearing threshold level) and that evokes a tolerable loudness (hearing comfort level) must carefully be determined on all electrodes. […]
The authors have conducted a retrospective study in about 15,000 beneficiaries of Portugal Telecom/ACS who attended its ENT Department at its Health Care Unit of Lisbon, during a period of 20 years (1983-2003). 1001 patients with isolated or associated vertigo complaints were selected. Their analysis was sometimes difficult – owing to the scarce characterization of […]
Tinnitus is still a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma and is very difficult to predict improvement in it. Authors use a modification of selective therapeutic electrostimulation (SET) to reduce or to subside tinnitus.. Studied population consisted of 34 patients with persistent tinnitus, among them 24 women and 10 men in age 20 -63 years. There are […]
