M. Akcakaya

A rapid, machine-learning readout of cochlear neural degeneration that transfers from animals to humans

Standard hearing tests miss cochlear neural degeneration (CND), the loss of synapses between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers that may underlie unexplained hearing difficulty in roughly one in ten adults. Envelope following responses (EFRs) can index this neural loss noninvasively, but conventional protocols...