Biosonar

Biosonar-1

Annemarie Surlykke • Paul E. Nachtigall Richard R. Fay • Arthur N. Popper Editors 2014 The following preface is the one that we published in Volume 1 of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research back in 1992. As anyone reading the original preface, or the many users of the series, will note, we have far […]

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Primary Care Sleep Medicine

Primary Care Sleep Medicine-1

James F. Pagel • S.R. Pandi-Perumal Editors 2014 A Practical Guide In 2007, at the time of the first edition of this book, sleep medicine was a discipline that had only just attained AMA subspecialty status. The epidemiological data current to that time had revealed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to be a risk factor, perhaps […]

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Vertigo Rehabilitation Protocols

Vertigo Rehabilitation Protocols-1

Dario Carlo Alpini • Antonio Cesarani Guido Brugnoni 2014 Vertigo is one of the most frequently experienced physical disturbances and is probably also the most interdisciplinary symptom. As Thomas Brandt highlighted in his book “ Vertigo. Its Multisensory Syndromes ” [1], understanding vertigo may be approached through taking into account how vision, hearing, and proprioception […]

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Vertigo and Balance Disorders in Children

Vertigo and Balance Disorders in Children-1

Kimitaka Kaga 2014 Historically, one of the great physicians was André-Thomas, a pediatric neurologist who described how to observe postural response including labyrinthine righting reflexes. In otology and neurotology, there is increasing opportunity to see congenitally deaf infants with cochlear implants complicating vestibular loss. In deaf infants and children with loss of semicircular canal function, […]

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The Yale Swallow Protocol

The Yale Swallow Protocol-1

Steven B. Leder • Debra M. Suiter 2014 An Evidence-Based Approach to Decision Making We have made every effort to ensure that all information in this book is evidence-based and has been published in peer- reviewed journals. This is important in the area of swallow screening because many clinicians have their own idiosyncratic ways of […]

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Regenerative Medicine for the Inner Ear

Regenerative Medicine for the Inner Ear-1

Juichi Ito Editor 2014 Inner ear diseases such as sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), tinnitus, and dizziness are very difficult to treat, especially in cases with highly severe hearing disturbance. While the use of cochlear implants in profoundly deaf patients has been encouragingly useful, further improvement in the efficacy of this device is desirable. Recently, regenerative medicine has made great […]

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