Noise and the Brain
Experience Dependent Developmental and Adult Plasticity

The most comprehensive and evidence-based examination of the effects of noise on auditory/nonauditory systems on the market today

Jos J. Eggermont (Author)

9780124159945

Hardback, published 30 October 2013

392 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.79 kg

Approx.18 pages

1. Introduction2. Epidemiology, Etiology and Genetics of Hearing Problems 3. Neural Substrates of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss 4. Effects of Nondamaging Sound on the Developing Brain 5. Effects of Deafness on the Young Brain6. Speech Understanding in Noise7. Effects of "Nondamaging Sound" on the Adult Auditory Brain8. Noise and the Aging Brain 9. Music and the Brain10. Nonauditory Effects of Noise11. Noise in the Brain12. Protection Against Noise-Induced Brain Changes

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]