Central Auditory Dysfunction Among Chronic Alcoholics

Spitzer, J.; Ventry, Ira M.

doi:10.1001/archotol.1980.00790280032006

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“…These studies, however, did not control for variables such as age and exposure to other toxic substances, as was done in the current study. 1,3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] A comparison of TEOAE responses between groups revealed a statistically significant difference at 2kHz in the left ear in subjects exposed to noise; the TEOAE signal-to-noise ratio was lower in alcoholic subjects (Table 5). There are, however, no data in the current study to justify this finding.…”

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“…Tinnitus has also been reported as a symptom in this condition; Spitzer and Ventry, 13 Spitzer, 15 Gross et al 27 and Quick 28 thus confirmed alcohol as being toxic to the auditory system.…”

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“…Alcoholism-related sensorineural hearing loss has been documented in many papers; 1,3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] the methods, however, raise concerns about whether variables such as age, duration of alcohol abuse, and past and present noise exposure might also have contributed to the observed hearing loss.…”

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Avaliação auditiva em alcoolistas abstêmios

Ribeiro

Jacob-Corteletti

Alvarenga

et al. 2007

Rev. Bras. Otorrinolaringol.

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Al coholism is considered the most relevant addiction in the international arena and few investigations have examined the association between sensorineural hearing loss and alcohol abuse, with conflicting results. Aim: To analyze the effects of alcohol abuse on the auditory system of alcoholics in abstinence taking into account the duration of alcohol abuse and associated noise exposure. Method: our series comprehended 75 individuals, divided into two groups: trial and control. The audiological assessment was made by means of: pure-tone audiometry, transient evoked otoacoustic emissions, tympanometry. The Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests were used in the statistical analysis of the data. Results: the groups of patients who had been alcoholics evidenced a statistically significant worse performance in the audiological assessment. The combined exposure to alcohol and noise was not synergic on the auditory system. Conclusion: long-term alcohol abuse can damage the cochlear function, specifically the outer hair cells.

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Avaliação auditiva em alcoolistas abstêmios

Ribeiro

Jacob-Corteletti

Alvarenga

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Rev. Bras. Otorrinolaringol.

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“…This involves the diagnosis of auditory deficits in attention disorders, autism, learning disabilities and chronic alcoholism [19,20]. …”

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Contribution of psychoacoustics and neuroaudiology in revealing correlation of mental disorders with central auditory processing disorders

Iliadou

Iakovides

2003

Ann Gen Hosp Psychiatry

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“…These brain impairments correlate with the lifetime dose of ethanol consumed (Nicolás et al, 1997). At a functional level, many studies have explored the behavioral correlates of these cerebral effects, and have repeatedly shown impaired performance in a large range of cognitive abilities, ranging from perceptual (e.g., Blusewicz et al, 1977; Spitzer and Ventry, 1980; Spitzer, 1981) and attentional (e.g., Smith and Oscar-Berman, 1992; Sullivan et al, 1993; Noël et al, 2001) abilities to memory and executive functions (e.g., Bechara et al, 2001; Oscar-Berman et al, 2004; Flannery et al, 2007; Pitel et al, 2007). Nevertheless, in contrast with this extensive exploration of the consequences of alcohol-dependence on cognition, the evaluation of emotional abilities has long been neglected in this pathology.…”

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Experimental and clinical usefulness of crossmodal paradigms in psychiatry: an illustration from emotional processing in alcohol-dependence

Maurage¹,

Campanella²

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Crossmodal processing (i.e., the construction of a unified representation stemming from distinct sensorial modalities inputs) constitutes a crucial ability in humans' everyday life. It has been extensively explored at cognitive and cerebral levels during the last decade among healthy controls. Paradoxically however, and while difficulties to perform this integrative process have been suggested in a large range of psychopathological states (e.g., schizophrenia and autism), these crossmodal paradigms have been very rarely used in the exploration of psychiatric populations. The main aim of the present paper is thus to underline the experimental and clinical usefulness of exploring crossmodal processes in psychiatry. We will illustrate this proposal by means of the recent data obtained in the crossmodal exploration of emotional alterations in alcohol-dependence. Indeed, emotional decoding impairments might have a role in the development and maintenance of alcohol-dependence, and have been extensively investigated by means of experiments using separated visual or auditory stimulations. Besides these unimodal explorations, we have recently conducted several studies using audio-visual crossmodal paradigms, which has allowed us to improve the ecological validity of the unimodal experimental designs and to offer new insights on the emotional alterations among alcohol-dependent individuals. We will show how these preliminary results can be extended to develop a coherent and ambitious research program using crossmodal designs in various psychiatric populations and sensory modalities. We will finally end the paper by underlining the various potential clinical applications and the fundamental implications that can be raised by this emerging project.

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Central Auditory Dysfunction Among Chronic Alcoholics

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Avaliação auditiva em alcoolistas abstêmios

Avaliação auditiva em alcoolistas abstêmios

Contribution of psychoacoustics and neuroaudiology in revealing correlation of mental disorders with central auditory processing disorders

Experimental and clinical usefulness of crossmodal paradigms in psychiatry: an illustration from emotional processing in alcohol-dependence

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