Effects of aging and adult-onset hearing loss on cortical auditory regions

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Cardin, Velia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging (aging); Aging and cognitive function; Auditory cortex; Cognitive decline; Hearing loss; Humans

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT ONSET HEARING LOSS; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEATING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 84973570769     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00199     Document Type: Review

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