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Neuroplasticity in Auditory Aging_Project 2 Aims 1 and 2

NCT03475043 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 405

Last updated 2025-04-08

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Summary

Millions of elderly adults in the USA have age related hearing loss (ARHL), a malady that affects half of adults 60-69 years, and the majority of older adults. This hearing loss not only impacts communication and functional ability, but also is strongly associated with cognitive decline and decreased quality of life. This project aims to develop effective strategies to compensate and reverse this process through a deeper understanding of plasticity and adaptive auditory function, and how to engage it and harness it to remedy ARHL.

Conditions

  • Auditory Perceptual Disorders
  • Aging Problems

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Auditory training: temporal cues

Behavioral training for 6-9 hours in listening to specific characteristics of acoustic signals. Listeners receive correct-answer feedback on each trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D. · University of Maryland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-21
Primary Completion
2024-05-31
Completion
2024-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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