Re: more ABI stuff/Providing sound to brain

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I found this on HEI website:

http://www.hei.org/htm/auditory.htm

Can you really hear voices with ABI as mentioned in this article?

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Providing Sound to the Brain

was a bright young woman with everything to live for. Her

doctors, however, weren't sure if she would live at all. The tumors growing

on 's auditory nerves were causing internal pressure and robbing

her of the ability to hear. Ultimately, the tumors could take her life.

Through an innovative surgical technique pioneered at the Institute, the

tumors were sucessfully removed, but during the surgery, her hearing nerve

had to be severed. Even though the procedure saved her life, the results

were bittersweet: a world without sound.

At the time of her second operation, received a revolutionary

device called the auditory brainstem implant (ABI) which had been developed

at the Institute. The device provides a sensation of sound through an array

if tiny electrodes placed directly on the brainstem. When turned

on the latest speech processor which eletronically interprets and

discriminates sounds, her face lit up. " The world sounds like it used to

sound - that's my voice I hear! "

's hereditary disorder is called Neurofibromatosis Type 2 - or

simply NF2 - and it affects some 600,000 people in the United States.

Researchers have taken on the task of identifying the genes that cause NF2

with the hope that one day gene therapy may provide an alternitive

treatment to surgical intervention.

[Guest guest]

I am just newly activated, but they ae very specific about not wanting you

to have " high hopes " and unrealistic expectations. I think it is a minority

who :hear " voices, but perhaps others can comments. Marie

RE: more ABI stuff/Providing sound to brain

>I found this on HEI website:

>http://www.hei.org/htm/auditory.htm

>Can you really hear voices with ABI as mentioned in this article?

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>Providing Sound to the Brain

> was a bright young woman with everything to live for. Her

>doctors, however, weren't sure if she would live at all. The tumors growing

>on 's auditory nerves were causing internal pressure and robbing

>her of the ability to hear. Ultimately, the tumors could take her life.

>Through an innovative surgical technique pioneered at the Institute, the

>tumors were sucessfully removed, but during the surgery, her hearing nerve

>had to be severed. Even though the procedure saved her life, the results

>were bittersweet: a world without sound.

>At the time of her second operation, received a revolutionary

>device called the auditory brainstem implant (ABI) which had been developed

>at the Institute. The device provides a sensation of sound through an array

>if tiny electrodes placed directly on the brainstem. When turned

>on the latest speech processor which eletronically interprets and

>discriminates sounds, her face lit up. " The world sounds like it used to

>sound - that's my voice I hear! "

>'s hereditary disorder is called Neurofibromatosis Type 2 - or

>simply NF2 - and it affects some 600,000 people in the United States.

>Researchers have taken on the task of identifying the genes that cause NF2

>with the hope that one day gene therapy may provide an alternitive

>treatment to surgical intervention.

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