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Evaluation of the Cognitive Function of Adults with Severe Hearing Loss Pre- and Post-Cochlear Implantation Using Verbal Fluency Testing

Hearing loss is a major public health problem with significant evidence correlating it with cognitive performance. Verbal fluency tests are commonly used to assess lexical access. They provide a great deal of information about a subject’s cognitive function. The aim of our study was to evaluate phon...

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Autores principales: Baranger, Manon, Manera, Valeria, Sérignac, Chloé, Derreumaux, Alexandre, Cancian, Elisa, Vandersteen, Clair, Gros, Auriane, Guevara, Nicolas
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10253652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113792
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author Baranger, Manon
Manera, Valeria
Sérignac, Chloé
Derreumaux, Alexandre
Cancian, Elisa
Vandersteen, Clair
Gros, Auriane
Guevara, Nicolas
author_facet Baranger, Manon
Manera, Valeria
Sérignac, Chloé
Derreumaux, Alexandre
Cancian, Elisa
Vandersteen, Clair
Gros, Auriane
Guevara, Nicolas
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description Hearing loss is a major public health problem with significant evidence correlating it with cognitive performance. Verbal fluency tests are commonly used to assess lexical access. They provide a great deal of information about a subject’s cognitive function. The aim of our study was to evaluate phonemic and semantic lexical access abilities in adults with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss and then to re-evaluate a cohort after cochlear implantation. 103 adult subjects underwent phonemic and semantic fluency tests during a cochlear implant candidacy evaluation. Of the total 103 subjects, 43 subjects underwent the same tests at 3 months post-implantation. Our results showed superior performance in phonemic fluency compared to semantic fluency in subjects prior to implantation. Phonemic fluency was positively correlated with semantic fluency. Similarly, individuals with congenital deafness had better semantic lexical access than individuals with acquired deafness. Results at 3 months post-implantation showed an improvement in phonemic fluency. No correlation was found between the evolution of pre- and post-implant fluency and the auditory gain of the cochlear implant, and we found no significant difference between congenital and acquired deafness. Our study shows an improvement in global cognitive function after cochlear implantation without differentiation of the phonemic-semantic pathway.
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spelling pubmed-102536522023-06-10 Evaluation of the Cognitive Function of Adults with Severe Hearing Loss Pre- and Post-Cochlear Implantation Using Verbal Fluency Testing Baranger, Manon Manera, Valeria Sérignac, Chloé Derreumaux, Alexandre Cancian, Elisa Vandersteen, Clair Gros, Auriane Guevara, Nicolas J Clin Med Article Hearing loss is a major public health problem with significant evidence correlating it with cognitive performance. Verbal fluency tests are commonly used to assess lexical access. They provide a great deal of information about a subject’s cognitive function. The aim of our study was to evaluate phonemic and semantic lexical access abilities in adults with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss and then to re-evaluate a cohort after cochlear implantation. 103 adult subjects underwent phonemic and semantic fluency tests during a cochlear implant candidacy evaluation. Of the total 103 subjects, 43 subjects underwent the same tests at 3 months post-implantation. Our results showed superior performance in phonemic fluency compared to semantic fluency in subjects prior to implantation. Phonemic fluency was positively correlated with semantic fluency. Similarly, individuals with congenital deafness had better semantic lexical access than individuals with acquired deafness. Results at 3 months post-implantation showed an improvement in phonemic fluency. No correlation was found between the evolution of pre- and post-implant fluency and the auditory gain of the cochlear implant, and we found no significant difference between congenital and acquired deafness. Our study shows an improvement in global cognitive function after cochlear implantation without differentiation of the phonemic-semantic pathway. MDPI 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10253652/ /pubmed/37297988 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113792 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Manera, Valeria
Sérignac, Chloé
Derreumaux, Alexandre
Cancian, Elisa
Vandersteen, Clair
Gros, Auriane
Guevara, Nicolas
Evaluation of the Cognitive Function of Adults with Severe Hearing Loss Pre- and Post-Cochlear Implantation Using Verbal Fluency Testing
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title_short Evaluation of the Cognitive Function of Adults with Severe Hearing Loss Pre- and Post-Cochlear Implantation Using Verbal Fluency Testing
title_sort evaluation of the cognitive function of adults with severe hearing loss pre- and post-cochlear implantation using verbal fluency testing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10253652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113792
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