2013 and 2015 Conferences on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求对2013年和2015年植入式听觉假体会议（CIAP）的部分支持。2013年CIAP定于2013年7月14日至19日在加利福尼亚州太浩湖的Granlibakken会议中心举行。人工耳蜗是第一种广泛应用于临床的神经假体。它是恢复深度聋患者声感觉和言语理解能力的唯一有效的治疗方法。在过去的20年里，这些设备已经实现了患者性能的显着改善。目前，植入后舌下发育的成年人的平均言语理解得分是80-100%正确。在2岁之前接受人工耳蜗植入的先天性耳聋儿童在人工耳蜗植入后的言语和语言发育率接近正常。CI提供了显着的改善沟通，即使在postlingually成年人谁有显着的残余听觉。听觉脑干植入物是耳蜗植入物的一种变体，刺激耳蜗核，可以为没有耳蜗神经的儿童和成人提供语音理解。这些进步在很大程度上得益于广泛的科学学科研究人员的集体努力，从工程，材料科学和信号处理，到语言学和认知。这种广泛的跨学科协作与合作在很大程度上是通过这一系列两年一度的研究会议来促进的，这些会议起源于1983年的戈登会议。这些会议是与人工耳蜗植入相关的唯一论坛，其中科学研究问题是唯一的焦点。这个会议系列的长期目标是产生新的研究思路，这将改善听觉假体的设计和功能。本提案的具体目的是：（1）为介绍和讨论人工耳蜗和其他听觉假体的最新和最高质量的基础研究提供一个论坛，（2）提供一个有利于科学讨论和头脑风暴的会议场所和氛围，及（3）为外地的年轻调查员提供机会，介绍他们的工作，并与资深调查员建立联系。CIAP会议使用戈登研究会议的组织模式，其中包括在程序内进行讨论的充足时间，充足的非结构化时间以鼓励自发的非正式讨论和头脑风暴，以及一个孤立的“撤退”位置，以便参与者在其他会议参与者的陪伴下度过几乎所有醒着的时间。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks partial support for the 2013 and 2015 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP). The 2013 CIAP is scheduled to be held at the Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA July 14-19, 2013. The cochlear implant (CI) is the first neural prosthesis in widespread clinical application. It provide 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 80-100% correct. Congenitally deaf children who receive a CI prior to age 2 are achieving nearly normal rates of speech and language development with cochlear implants. CIs provide significant improvement in communication even in postlingually deafened adults who have significant residual acoustic hearing. The auditory brainstem implant, a variation on the cochlear implant that stimulates the cochlear nucleus, can provide speech understanding in children and adults who have no cochlear nerve. These advances have benefitted substantially from the collective efforts of researchers in a broad array of scientific disciplines, from engineering, materials science, and signal processing, to linguistics and cognition. This broad, interdisciplinary 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 related to cochlear implants in which scientific research issues are the sole focus. The long-term goal of this conference series is to generate new research ideas that will improve the design and function of auditory prostheses. The Specific Aims of this proposal are (1) to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest and highest quality basic research on cochlear implants and other auditory prostheses, (2) to provide a meeting venue and atmosphere that is conducive to scientific discussion and brainstorming, and (3) to provide an opportunity for young investigators in the field to present their work and network with established investigators. The CIAP conferences use the Gordon Research Conference model of organization, which includes ample time for discussion within the program, ample unstructured time to encourage spontaneous informal discussions and brainstorming, and an isolated "retreat" location so that participants spend almost all their waking hours in the company of other conference participants.