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DOI: 10.1017/s0022215100050052
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Psychogenic Deafness

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“…It accounts for at least 5Á10% of all referrals to Ear, Nose and Throat departments(ENT). It is characterized by descriptions of hearing difficulties in the presence of normal audiometric thresholds (1,2). These difficulties most often occur in the presence of background noise or competing conversations (3,4).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It accounts for at least 5Á10% of all referrals to Ear, Nose and Throat departments(ENT). It is characterized by descriptions of hearing difficulties in the presence of normal audiometric thresholds (1,2). These difficulties most often occur in the presence of background noise or competing conversations (3,4).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in a large UK survey, 26% of adults reported great difficulty hearing speech in noise, while only 16% had abnormal sensitivity (audiometric thresholds ≥25 dB hearing level [HL] averaged between 0.5 and 4 kHz; Davis, 1989). This condition has been given several names, including obscure auditory dysfunction (Saunders & Haggard, 1989) and King-Kopetzky syndrome (KKS; Hinchcliffe, 1992) after the authors of the early reports of this condition (P. F. King, 1954; Kopetzky, 1948).…”
Section: Hearing Difficulties With a Normal Audiogrammentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many of these patients report specific difficulties hearing speech in a background of noise. This phenomenon has long been identified (Kopetzky, 1948;King, 1954) and has been termed 'Obscure Auditory Dysfunction' (OAD) (Saunders and Haggard, 1989) and 'King-Kopetzky syndrome' (Hinchcliffe, 1992).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A factor in quality of life that appears throughout the literature is the emotional well-being of patients. Hinchcliffe (1992) reproduces this extract from King (1954) describing patients who had lost the capacity for discriminative listening: "He was a worried tense man, extremely anxious lest his defect should be the cause of disaster, particularly when told that his hearing was normal. "…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%