2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请寻求对2007年可植入听觉假体会议的部分支持，会议定于2007年7月10日至15日在加利福尼亚州太浩湖Granlibakken会议中心举行。人工耳蜗是第一个取得广泛临床应用所必需的技术成功的神经假体。它为恢复重度聋人的声音感觉和言语理解提供了唯一有效的治疗方法。在过去的20年里，患者使用这些设备的表现得到了戏剧性的改善。目前，植入后语言失聪的成年人的平均语音理解得分在80%-100%之间。这些进展在很大程度上源于广泛科学学科的研究人员的集体努力。这种密切的协作和合作在很大程度上是通过这一系列两年一次的研究会议促进的，该会议始于1983年的一次戈登会议。这些会议是唯一一个将科研问题作为唯一焦点的论坛。这次会议的重点是语音和音乐的时间精细结构(TFS)的编码，婴儿和儿童的植入，以及培训的效果。复杂的音高和音乐依赖于TFS，已被证明在人工耳蜗术中特别难传达。人工耳蜗的研究处于阐明复杂音高的神经科学基础的研究的前沿。学习和可塑性一直被认为与助听器和植入物有关，现在在最近的研究中受到了相当大的关注。除了这些主题外，我们还将审查(1)生物营养因子，(2)新的刺激和信号处理策略，(3)耳蜗外植入，(4)植入刺激与低频残余听力相结合的最新研究。总而言之，会议将延续将来自广泛学科的知识和数据汇集在一起的传统，以努力更好地了解耳蜗电刺激，并改善安装了人工耳蜗的患者的表现。这项申请寻求对关于人工耳蜗植入和其他形式的假耳的基础研究会议的部分支持。这次会议为科学家提供了一个独特的论坛，让他们分享他们的最新研究成果，并集思广益，讨论未来的研究方向。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks partial support for the 2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, scheduled at the Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 10-15, 2007. The cochlear implant is the first neural prosthesis to achieve the technical success necessary for widespread clinical application. It provides the only effective therapy for restoring sound sensation and speech understanding to the profoundly deaf. Over the past 20 years dramatic improvements in patients' performance with these devices have been achieved. Currently the average speech understanding score for implanted postlingually deafened adults is between 80-100% correct. These advances have derived substantially from the collective efforts of researchers in a broad array of scientific disciplines. This close collaboration and cooperation has been fostered in large part through this series of biennial research conferences, originating with a 1983 Gordon Conference. These conferences are the only forum in which scientific research issues are the sole focus. Topics to receive emphasis in this meeting are the coding of temporal fine structure (TFS) for speech and music, implants in infants and children, and the effects of training. Complex pitch and music, which rely on TFS, have proven to be particularly difficult to convey in a cochlear implant. Cochlear implant research is at the forefront of studies to elucidate the underlying neuroscience of complex pitch. Learning and plasticity have long been known to relevant to hearing aids and implants, and are now receiving considerable attention in recent research. In addition to these topics we will examine the latest research on (1) biological trophic factors, (2) novel stimulation and signal-processing strategies, (3) implants beyond the cochlea, (4) combining implant stimulation with low-frequency residual hearing. In sum, the conference will continue the tradition of bringing together knowledge and data from a wide range of disciplines in an effort to better understand electrical stimulation of the cochlea and to improve the performance of patients fitted with cochlear implants. This application seeks partial support for a conference on basic research on cochlear implants and other forms of prosthetic hearing. This conference provides a unique forum for scientists to share their latest research and to brainstorm about future directions in research.