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The research involvement and interests of Mayo Clinic audiologist Jennifer E. Gonzalez, Au.D., Ph.D., include:
Dr. Gonzalez also focuses on the brain's involvement in overall outcomes of interventions for hearing loss — including hearing aids and cochlear implants — and is investigating the connection between cochlear implant outcomes and lifelong reading, learning or both.
Auditory disorders and learning. Dr. Gonzalez studies electrophysiological methods of measuring neural changes resulting from auditory disorders and the effects of hearing devices on central auditory learning, including acclimatization to hearing aids and cochlear implants.
Research shows that the brain changes and adapts according to variations in sensory inputs. The auditory system is no exception to these changes and adaptations. The way a person's central auditory nervous system adapts — either increases or decreases — in response to changes in auditory input from any combination of the outer, middle or inner ear or the auditory nerve, may underlie that person's ultimate success with hearing loss interventions.
Dr. Gonzalez's work in this area aims to develop a tool that can measure these changes. This tool could then be used to identify people who may need additional or different targeted interventions. Further, this tool will be used to document neural changes resulting from hearing loss interventions over time.
Dr. Gonzalez's research in central auditory processing has the capacity to influence many aspects of audiology, including the development of new and improved diagnostic methods for addressing unmet patient needs as well as improvements in precision medicine and individualized care.
Dr. Gonzalez's research also addresses the need to identify people who are at risk of central auditory processing disorder, many of whom may not be aware of the disorder's impact on overall quality of life. In an important connection between research and clinical care, Dr. Gonzalez's work explores the effects of concussion on central auditory processing, including auditory spatial disorientation, and explores the possibility that central auditory processing deficits may increase the likelihood of experiencing a concussion, repeat concussions and second impact syndrome.
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