Abstract
Work on cochlear prostheses for the auditory rehabilitation of the profoundly deaf represents a challenging problem. Some early, but perhaps premature, surgical attempts have helped to bring the entire issue into focus. Systemic studies are now under way in many different places. Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
Subject
General Medicine,Otorhinolaryngology
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