Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Helen E. Nuttall, Kate Slade, Christopher J. Plack
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 9 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 9 9 - 9
Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia reviews the effects of hearing loss on the brain and examines the most up-to-date perspectives on the possible causal relati… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAge-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia reviews the effects of hearing loss on the brain and examines the most up-to-date perspectives on the possible causal relation between hearing loss and cognitive impairment. Through this synthesis, the book explores the links between hearing loss and the brain to improve understanding and promote better hearing for better brain health.
- Details how age-related hearing loss affects non-auditory brain resources
- Highlights possible links between hearing loss and dementia, providing essential information for all healthcare audience members and students
- Outlines the communication needs of individuals living with dementia and/or hearing loss
- Enables readers to understand how hearing loss can negatively impact brain health
Researchers in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, audition, public health, aging. Clinicians in neurology
1. The sense of hearing
2. How age-related hearing loss affects the auditory system
3. Non-auditory brain areas in communication and the effects of ageing
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5. The causal link between hearing loss and dementia: Evidence from animal models
6. Hearing loss, auditory cognition, and dementia
7. Neurodegeneration and processing of degraded speech
8. The psychosocial pathway mediating hearing loss and cognitive decline
9. Listening effort in age-related hearing loss and potential impacts on cognition
10. Hearing loss and neuroplasticity
11. Modifying cognitive decline through hearing aids
12. Socioeconomic inequalities in hearing health: ARHL as a lifestyle challenge
13. From the ears of the individual – living with hearing loss and its implications for dementia
14. Communication needs of individuals living in care homes with hearing loss and dementia
15. Future directions for ARHL and dementia: An ear to the future
2. How age-related hearing loss affects the auditory system
3. Non-auditory brain areas in communication and the effects of ageing
4.
5. The causal link between hearing loss and dementia: Evidence from animal models
6. Hearing loss, auditory cognition, and dementia
7. Neurodegeneration and processing of degraded speech
8. The psychosocial pathway mediating hearing loss and cognitive decline
9. Listening effort in age-related hearing loss and potential impacts on cognition
10. Hearing loss and neuroplasticity
11. Modifying cognitive decline through hearing aids
12. Socioeconomic inequalities in hearing health: ARHL as a lifestyle challenge
13. From the ears of the individual – living with hearing loss and its implications for dementia
14. Communication needs of individuals living in care homes with hearing loss and dementia
15. Future directions for ARHL and dementia: An ear to the future
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443291982
- eBook ISBN: 9780443291999
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Helen E. Nuttall
Dr Helen Nuttall is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, where she leads the Neuroscience of Speech and Action (NoSA) Laboratory. The NoSA Lab investigate research questions surrounding how speech, action, and cognitive function are represented in the brain; how these functions work in health and disease; and how they are affected by the ageing process, particularly with regard to age-related hearing loss. She has a PhD in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Lancaster. UKKS
Kate Slade
Dr. Kate Slade is a Lecturer in Psychology in Lancaster Medical School at Lancaster University. She is an outstanding early-career researcher pursuing research into ageing, hearing, and psychophysiology; specifically, the impact of hearing loss and effort needed for listening on the body and brain. She has a PhD in Experimental Psychology.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Lancaster, UKCP
Christopher J. Plack
Professor Chris Plack is a world-leading auditory scientist, and currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at Lancaster University, and Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, 16 book chapters, an introductory textbook on hearing, and two volumes as lead editor. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He has a PhD in Psychoacoustics.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Lancaster, UK