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The University of Southampton
Engineering

How can we get inside the cochlea? Seminar

Date:
22 November 2016
Venue:
Building 7, Room 3019

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Rameen Mustafa at R.Mustafa@soton.ac.uk. .

Event details

ISVR Seminar

Cochlear implantation is a highly successful treatment for severe to profound deafness in which a surgical prosthesis restores a sensation of sound and gives users access to the auditory world. Importantly, once implanted it remains in situ for life. Given this, there is an ever greater need to understand better how to optimise its function and also to detect subtle deterioration in performance. To do so, we need to develop better methods to diagnose what is happening in the individual cochlea and auditory system more generally in implant users, both before and after cochlear implantation. I will give an overview of research undertaken at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service in collaboration with others to further these aims, specifically via the development of (i) new bio-markers of hearing (ii) new ways to detect poorly functioning electrode channels and (iii) ways of using routinely available clinical data for better device monitoring.

Speaker information

Carl Verschuur , Director of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS). Carl Verschuur is Director of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS), an enterprise unit within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. USAIS provides specialised clinical services to people from around the South of England who need a cochlear implant, other types of surgical hearing prostheses, or specialist services in Auditory Processing Disorder and other specialised forms of hearing assessment. Carl’s research focuses on preservation and optimisation of acoustic and electrical hearing. He is particularly interested in the role played by (neuro-) inflammation in driving hearing loss and in the development of new bio-markers and other measures to predict and optimise hearing performance with auditory implants.

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