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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade ordet deafness.
21. Drug-based therapies for auditory trauma
Sammanfattning : Deafness is one of the most common health conditions in the developed countries, and worldwide, an estimated 70 million people are deaf. For people with severe to profound hearing loss, a cochlear implant is the only treatment today. The most common forms of severe hearing loss and deafness are related to morphological changes in the cochlea. LÄS MER
22. Hereditary susceptibility to inner ear stress agents studied in heterozygotes of the German waltzing guinea pig
Sammanfattning : The German waltzing guinea pig is a strain of animals expressing deafness and severe balance disorders already at birth. The mutation arose spontaneously in a breeding facility in Germany and as the affected animals show a characteristic waltzing behavior, the strain is named the German waltzing guinea pig. LÄS MER
23. Experiences, networks and uncertainty : parenting a child who uses a cochlear implant
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation project is to describe the ways people experience parenting a deaf child who uses a cochlear implant. Within a framework of social science studies of disability this is done by combining approaches using ethnographic and netnographic methods of participant observation with an interview study. LÄS MER
24. Life Strategies, Work and Health in People with Usher Syndrome
Sammanfattning : Introduction: People with Usher syndrome (USH) have an inherited disorder causing congenital deafness or hearing loss combined with progressive vision loss and, in some cases, balance problems. Previous research has shown that people with USH have poor physical and psychological health. LÄS MER
25. Quantitative analysis of disease associated mutations and sequence variants
Sammanfattning : A solid-phase sequencing technique was applied to quantify the mitochondrial A3243G mutation in three families with maternally inherited diabetes and deafness. A correlation between the level of heteroplasmy and age at onset was found. LÄS MER