From the Cochlea to the Cortex: Toward Integrated Auditory Health—Editorial for the Special Issue “Recent Advances in Hearing Impairment”
Agnieszka J. Szczepek · 2026
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Agnieszka J. Szczepek introduces a special journal issue on hearing impairment in a 2026 editorial. Eleven contributions trace the auditory pathway from the inner ear to the brain's cortex. Hearing loss, the editorial stresses, reaches beyond thresholds into communication, emotion, and thinking.
One pair of contributions examines how the stress hormone corticosterone alters hearing synapses, with effects that differ by sex in mouse cochlea work. Other pieces tackle sudden hearing loss, using an inner-ear protein test to detect fluid leaks behind some cases labelled unexplained. Reviews and clinical studies fill out the issue. Together they argue for integrated auditory health that joins molecular, clinical, and brain-level research.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Agnieszka J. Szczepek |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |