2009 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为2009年植入式听觉假体会议寻求部分支持，该会议定于2009年7月12日至17日在加利福尼亚州太浩湖格兰利巴肯会议中心举行。人工耳蜗是第一个获得广泛临床应用所必需的技术成功的神经假体。它提供了唯一有效的治疗恢复声音感觉和语言理解的深度聋人。在过去的20年里，使用这些设备的患者的表现得到了显著的改善。目前，植入后语言失聪成人的平均言语理解得分在80-100%之间。先天性失聪儿童通过人工耳蜗的植入可以达到正常的言语和语言发育速度。这些进步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来促进的，这些会议起源于1983年的戈登会议。这些会议是唯一以科学研究问题为唯一焦点的论坛。本次会议的重点议题是：电极-神经界面、声信号预处理、听觉表现的生理测量、电声联合刺激、成人和儿童双侧植入物、听觉脑干和中脑植入物、螺旋神经节神经元的再生和拯救、可塑性和发育。此外还会有一场特别会议表彰玛戈·斯金纳对植入研究的贡献。总而言之，会议将继续汇集来自广泛学科的知识和数据的传统，以更好地理解耳蜗的电刺激，并提高耳蜗植入患者的表现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks partial support for the 2009 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, scheduled at the Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 12-17, 2009. 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. Congenitally deaf children are achieving normal rates of speech and language development with cochlear implants. 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 electrode-neural interface, acoustic signal pre-processing, physiological measures of auditory performance, combined electric and acoustic stimulation, bilateral implants in adults and children, implants in the auditory brainstem and midbrain, regeneration and rescue of spiral ganglion neurons, and plasticity and development. In addition there will be a special session honoring the contributions of Margo Skinner to implant research. 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.