Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scope of the Problem: The Prevalence and Significance of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss -- -- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: Challenges for the Military.- Relation Between Noise Exposure and Resulting Anatomical, Physiological and Perceptual Changes in Hearing: Acoustic Parameters Influencing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss -- Anatomical Consequences of Noise Insult -- Changes in VIII Nerve Coding with NIHL -- Suprathreshold Changes in Auditory System Function after Noise Exposure -- Central Nervous System Plasticity: Noise-Induced Tinnitus -- Susceptibility and Factors Contributing to NIHL: Genes that Influence Susceptibility to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss -- Effects of Early Noise Exposure on Subsequent Age-Related Changes in Hearing -- Effects of Exposure to Industrial Chemicals on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss -- Protection and Repair: Conventional Hearing Protection: Improved Mechanical Devices -- Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Potential Therapeutic Agents -- Hearing at Frontiers of Biology -- Index.

Exposure to loud noise continues to be one of the largest causes of hearing loss in the adult population, already affecting some 15 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 69. There have been a number of discoveries and advances that have increased our understanding of the mechanisms of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL).  These advances have the potential to impact how NIHL can be prevented and how our noise standards can be made more appropriate. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss describes the effect of environmental noise on hearing, provides important background on the subject, and also explores the broader issues currently arising on effects of noise on non-human vertebrates. Perspectives on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Colleen G. Le Prell and Donald Henderson The Public Health Significance of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Peter M. Rabinowitz  Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: Challenges for the Military Marjorie A. M. Grantham The Use of Kurtosis Measurement in the Assessment of Potential Noise Trauma Donald Henderson and Roger P. Hamernik Noise-Induced Structural Damage to the Cochlea  Bohua Hu Neural Coding of Sound with Cochlear Damage  Eric D. Young Suprathreshold Auditory Processing in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss  Mini N. Shrivastav The Neurobiology of Noise-Induced Tinnitus  James A. Kaltenbach and Ryan Manz Effects of Early Noise Exposure on Subsequent Age-Related Changes in Hearing Eric C. Bielefeld Effects of Exposure to Chemicals on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss  Thais C. Morata and Ann-Christin Johnson Hearing Protection Devices: Regulation, Current Trends, and Emerging Technologies John G. Casali Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Potential Therapeutic Agents Colleen G. Le Prell and Jianxin Bao Frontiers in the Treatment of Hearing Loss Tatsuya Yamasoba, Josef M. Miller, Mats Ulfendahl, and Richard A. Altschuler   About the Editors Colleen Le Prell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Director of the Hearing Research Center at the University of Florida. Donald Henderson is a Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Arthur N. Popper is a Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. About the Series: The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of synthetic reviews of fundamental topics dealing with auditory systems. Each volume is independent and authoritative; taken as a set, this series is the definitive resource in the field.