Central Hearing Loss

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There are many types of hearing loss. There might be damage to the outer ear, to the inner ear, or to the ear drum, and so on. A relatively more confusing hearing loss type is the central hearing loss. In this case, the ears work just fine but some function in the central nervous system (mainly the brain) is lost so that the person cannot process what is being heard. Thus, the person finds it hard to understand or interpret what is being said.

This peculiar nature of this condition also results in the fact that people tend to diagnose it as a learning disorder. The sufferer is thought to have trouble understanding people and ideas and concepts and is attributed to a condition referred to as the central auditory processing disorder. However, this is a wrong diagnosis because the person's hearing is working just fine, only s/he cannot make any sense of what is being heard because of some loss of function in the auditory cortex.

Although studies on central hearing loss are increasing with each passing day, the amount of material available on it is still scratchy, and its fundamental nature is still elusive. There are conjectures that it might be caused due to the erosion of the myelin sheath (which is the protective coating) of the nerve cells of the central nervous system. Another idea is that generally some kind of tumor in the auditory cortex might lead to central hearing loss.

The symptoms of this condition are that the sufferers have a hard time understanding what is being said - especially when the surrounding noise is a bit too much. There might be difficulty in reading, studying or focusing on the task at hand if there is a radio or a TV blaring in the room. The sufferers might typically ignore the first few lines of what is being spoken to them in a conversation, more so if the suffer had been in a task which required them to be listening attentively.

Unfortunately, there is no direct cure to this condition. If it is being caused by a tumor - then steps can be taken to remove the tumor without harming the person and hope for recovery of function. Otherwise, all that can be done in the case of central hearing loss is to take alleviating measures. For instance, it has been found that someone with central hearing loss perform better at tasks if they are made to carry out the task in a quiet environment. Although this type of hearing can not currently be cured, many times it can be successfully treated with course of The Hearing Fix.