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Monday 22 June
Room: Tenerife	Structured Session - SS2
TINNITUS: MECHANISMS AND TREATMENT
Time: 08:00-10:00
Moderator: Carlos Herraiz
Auditory neural plasticity in normal hearing and in tinnitus		SS201
Larry Roberts
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Somatosensory Tinnitus: mechanisms, clinical characteristics and management		SS202
Tanit Sanchez
Otolaryngology  University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Pharmacology for Tinnitus management. An update		SS203
Carol Bauer
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. USA.
Sound therapies for Tinnitus treatment		SS204
René Dauman
Otolaryngology Department, Unit of Audiology, University of Bordeaux and University Hospital, Bordeaux. France.
Treatment of Tinnitus with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)		SS205
Tobias Kleinjung
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Regensburg, Germany.
10:00-10:30 COFFEE AND EXHIBITION
Room: Tenerife	Free Papers
TINNITUS
Time: 10:30-11:30
Chairman: Dauman R
Secretary: Blanco J
A  postal survey of tinnitus management  in general practice- results of a pilot study		FP-18
Sriskandarajah V, Jayarajan V.
Dept of Audiological Medicine, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK.
Comparison of tinnitus severity between patients with nearly normal hearing and those with hearing impairment		FP-19
Geczy BB ,Vatovec J, Zargi M.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Tinnitus matching in feigned tinnitus		FP-20
Adelman C (1,2), Priner R (1,2), Fraenkel R (2), Levi H (1,2).
(1) Speech and Hearing Center, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; (2) Department of Communication Disorders, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel.
Evaluation of the cochlear and efferent function in normal hearing tinnitus subjects: analysis of multiparametric global features and time-frequency fine structure of otoacoustic emissions		FP-21
Paglialonga P (1), Tognola G (1), Parazzini M (1), del Bo L (2), Ravazzani P (1).
(1) CNR Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Milan, Italy; (2) Fondazione Ascolta e Vivi, Milan, Italy.
Psychometric properties of a Chinese (cantonese) version of the Tinnitus Questionnaire		FP-22
Kam ACS (1), Cheung APP (2), Cahn PYB (3), Leung EKS (4), Wong TKC (4), Tong MCF (1), Van Hasselt C(1).
(1) Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; (1) 1 Institute of Human Communicative Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; (2) 2 Yan Chai Hospital, Hong Kong; (3) 3 Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong; (4) Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on chronic tinnitus: an egyptian study		FP-23
El-Nabil LM(1), Khalil LH (2), Amal F (1).
(1) Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (2) Department of Audiology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Room: Tenerife	Free Papers
NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS
Time: 11:30- 13:00
Chairman: Sliwinska-Kowalska M
Secretary: Mora J
Mechanisms of noise induced hearing loss and its alleviation		FP-24
Adelman C (1,2), Tamir S (3), Perez S (3), Weinberger J (4), Sohmer H (2)
(1) Speech and Hearing Center, Hadassah University Hospital; (2) Dept. of Physiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School; (3) Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center; (4) Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital; Jerusalem, Israel
Low DPOAES with normal audiograms and the risk of early hearing loss at noise exposure : predictive value of an otoacoustic vulnerability index		FP-25
Job A(1), Raynal M (2), Kossowski M (2).
(1) CRSSA centre de recherches du service de santé des armées, France; (2) Hopital d'instruction des Armées de Percy, France.
Prevalence of 6 KHz “notch” in populations of adolescents and young adults		FP-26
Le Prell CG (1), Guire K (2), Hall JW (1), Holmes AE (1).
(1) University of Florida; (2) University of Michigan, USA.
Developing hearing conservation program for rolling stock plant workers		FP-27
Sliwinska-Kowalska M (1,2), Zamojska M (1), Dudarewicz A (1), Kotylo P (1), Pawelczyk M (1), Pawlaczyk-Luszczynska M (1).
(1) Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; (2) Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
DPOAES  and susceptibility to tinnitus in normal hearing subjects exposed to noise		FP-28
Job A (1), Raynal M (2), Kossowski M (2).
(1) CRSSA centre de recherches du service de santé des armées, France; (2) Hopital d'instruction des Armées de Percy, France.
Modeling noise induced hearing loss		FP-29
Tronstad TV, Kvaloy O.
SINTEF ICT, Norway.
High frequency audiometric notch: an outpatient survey		FP-30
Yeoh LH, Osei-Lah V.
St Helier University Hospital, UK.
Occupational noise-induced hearing loss in poland: epidemiology and  statistics throughout 1999 - 2008		FP-31
Sulkowski WJ (1), Szymczak W (2).
(1) Clinic of  Occupational Diseases and Toxicology; (2) Department of Environmental Epidemiology. Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland.
Dynamic hearing protection for people with hearing loss		FP-32
Mülder HE, Goldbeck F.
Phonak Communications AG, Switzerland.
Oral D- Methionine (MRX-1024) significantly protects against Cisplatin- induced hearing loss: a phase II study in humans		FP-33
Campbell KCM (1), Nayar R (2), Borgonha S (2), Hughes L (1), Rehemtulla A (3) , Ross B (3), Sunkara P (3).
(1) Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA; (2)  St. John’s National Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India; (3) Molecular Therapeutics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:30 POSTER SESSION I & SHORT COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
Room: Tenerife	Invited Speakers and Free Papers
AUDITORY PROCESSING
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Chairman: Rudner M
Secretary: Zenker F
The meaning of language as embodied representations in the brain		IS-02
de Vega M
La Laguna University
Recognition of dichotic double digits in young and elderly cantonese-speaking listeners		FP-34
Kam ACS (1), Keith RW (2).
(1)  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and  Institute of Human Communicative Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; (2)  Department of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, US.
Normative values for Polish  dichotic digit test		FP-35
Senderski A (1), McPherson D (2), Kochanek K (1), Piotrowska A (1), Skarzynski H. (1)
(1) Institute of |Physiology and Pathology of Hearing Warsaw, Poland; (2) Brigham Young University  Provo, USA.
Dichotic digits test – what it can tells us about learning and communication abilities of school age children		FP-36
Senderski A (1), McPherson D (2), Kochanek K  (1), A.Pilka A.(1), Skarzynski H.(1)
(1) Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing Warsaw, Poland; (2) Brigham Young University  Provo, USA.
Plasticity of the auditory system in the elderly		FP-37
Lavie L, Attias J, Karni A.
University of Haifa.
On the surprisingly prolonged developmental trajectory of (central) auditory processing		FP-38
Banai K.
University of Haifa, Israel.
Effect of age on unilateral and bilateral edulink fitting in normal hearing subjects		FP-39
Mukari SZ, Umat C, Abdul Razak UA, Mannan NH, Mohamad S.
Department of Audiology & Speech Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
Presbyacusis – what is a reason for decreasing speech intelligibility?		FP-40
Marn B.
Children's University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia.
Types of hearing impairment - definitions changing over time		FP-41
Neumann  K (1), Stephens D (2).
(1) Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (2) School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.
Comparison of conventional auditory processing evaluation with a newly developed non verbal auditory processing battery in a pediatric population		FP-42
Iliadou V (1), Ferguson MA (2), Kaprinis St (1), Moore DR (2).
(1) Clinical Psychoacoustics Laboratory, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; (2) MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK.
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