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Filter by:This is a prospective within-subjects repeated-measures study that will enroll 24 adult users implanted with a HiResolution Bionic Ear System (HiRes 90K or newer). Subjects will be assigned to one of two cohorts based on audiometric results at the Baseline visit
This study evaluates the vestibular activity in major depression patients and healthy controls using the rotatory test and electronystagmography.
Motor control includes postural control and voluntary movement. For an optimal motor control it is necessary that brain integrates vestibular, visual and somatosensorial inputs properly, in a nonlinear way. Vestibular system, as an afferent organ, encodes head position in relation to gravity and changes in its linear and angular acceleration. As vestibular central system, it plays an essential role in motor control and in orientation and spatial memory as well. When a peripheral vestibular lesion occurs, elaboration, interpretation and processing of inputs are deficient and therefore motor control is altered to a greater or lesser degree. As process progress in time, there is a natural neuroplasticity that facilitates recovery or compensate vestibular function, although sometimes this process is incomplete and requires vestibular reeducation This study aims to assess changes in balance control, orientation and handicap perception in one case group with symptomatic unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction, before and after a rehabilitation programme (RV). To compare values obtained at the beginning and at the end of RV to those achieved by control group. Finally, this research aims to analyse evolution of spatial orientation quality in symptomatic and non symptomatic participants.
Sensorion are the study sponsor and the objective of this study is to investigate the safety and pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of SENS 401 in humans after a single and repeat dose administration and to confirm that, there is no interconversion of the (R) enantiomer to the (S) enantiomer. The study only involves the one drug, referred to as SENS-401.The key objective is to assess the safety of SENS 401 after multiple doses in healthy subjects. The population who are eligible to take part in the study are healthy male and female, non-smoking volunteers, aged between 18 and 50 years, as determined by screening tests at Simbec. Participation in the trial will last for about 3 weeks (from first screening to final end of study visit).
The purpose of this feasibility study is to evaluate the benefit of unilateral implantation in adults who have severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in one ear, and up to moderate sensorineural hearing loss in the other ear (asymmetric hearing loss).
This study is to aid the development for the use of SENS-218 outside its marketed therapeutic indications. SENS-218 is available in Asia and is marketed as an anti-emetic (Anti-sickness) drug often prescribed after exposure to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy exposure can often induce nausea and/or vomiting. The study only involves the one drug, referred to as SENS-218 in this study. The purpose of the study is to support the development of use of SENS-218 in non-Asian population. The key objective of this study is to identify the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of the drug in healthy Caucasian population. The PK refers to what the body does to the body, for example, how quickly the drug is absorbed into the blood stream. The population who are eligible to take part in the study are healthy male and female, non-smoking volunteers, aged between 18 and 50 years, as determined by screening tests at Simbec. Participation in the trial will last for about 3 weeks (from first screening visit to final end of study visit).
The purpose of this study is to determine if gevokizumab therapy may be an alternate therapy in patients with steroid resistant Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease.
This study will determine if exposure to an allergy material (ragweed) or exposure to an allergic-symptom-provoking substance (histamine) and medications typically used to decongest the nose changes the rate of blood-flow in the lining of the middle-ear. Otitis media (the build-up of water-like fluid in the middle-ear airspace) may occur if the blood flow in the lining of the middle-ear is too high and may be prevented if a way could be found to lower the blood flow in persons susceptible to the disease. Middle-ear blood flow is measured indirectly by measuring the change in middle-ear pressure while a person breathes a gas mixture containing nitrous oxide ("laughing gas"). In this study, 4 groups of subjects will be entered and middle-ear pressure in persons breathing a mixture of 50% Oxygen, 50% Nitrous Oxide ("laughing gas")will be measured after exposure to one of four substances (ragweed, histamine,an oral decongestant, a decongestant nasal spray) and a fake medication (placebo) at separate test sessions. All subjects will have one set of 2 x-rays of the middle ears and mastoids. The group exposed to ragweed will require 3 study visits while the other 3 groups will have 2 study visits. From this information middle-ear blood flow will be calculated. This will help determine the relationship between what happens in the nose and what happens in the middle ear.
The overall aim of the study is to investigate the Ponto wide implant considering; initial implant stability, stability over time, skin reaction and long term success when loaded at 3 weeks post surgery. Patients' quality of life improvements following implantation will also be surveyed. More specifically the primary objective of this clinical study is to test the hypothesis - The new Ponto wide diameter implant offers increased implant stability measured as ISQ (implant stability quotient) compared to the previous generation Ponto implant. And the secondary objective is to - Investigate when in time implant stability is the lowest as the initial mechanical stability is gradually replaced by biological stability
The purpose of this study is to determine whether ancrod is effective and safe in the treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).