Teaching Methodologies
Classes will be based on the expository method and serve to direct the student to the fundamental aspects of neurocognition and its relationship with hearing. However, the aim is to implement cognitive screening tools and hearing rehabilitation protocols suitable for patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, so the demonstrative method will be used in some classes, allowing correct learning to administer measuring instruments.
The assessment of the curricular unit integrates a continuous assessment, through an attendance and written work of critical analysis of an article with oral presentation, and/or final exam, which will consist of written tests of a theoretical and theoretical-practical nature in each case.
Approval in this subject presupposes knowledge of the subjects taught, which knowledge can be reassessed whenever the subjects covered here are of interest. The final grade must be at least 9.5 points.
Learning Results
Understand the neural bases of the auditory system and cognition.
Understand how cognitive performance relates to hearing loss.
Identify cognitive changes in people with hearing loss and apply cognitive screening instruments in the clinical practice of Audiologist.
Establish appropriate intervention/hearing rehabilitation protocols for patients with cognitive decline.
Program
Definition of cognition, memory and emotions
Cognitive decline and differential diagnosis
Cognitive screening instruments to be applied in the clinical practice of Audiologist
Neurocognitive bases of the auditory system
Cognitive decline and auditory phenotypes
Hearing rehabilitation and referral of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders by the Audiologist
Auditory neuroscience research
Assessment
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Rouse, M.H. (2020). Neuroanatomy for speech-language pathology and audiology (2nd ed.) Jones & Bartlett Learning.
American Psychological Association. (2022). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. APA.
Glick, H., Sharma, A. (2020). Cortical Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Function in Early-Stage, Mild-Moderate Hearing Loss: Evidence of Neurocognitive Benefit From Hearing Aid Use. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14.
Bidelman, G., Mahmud, S., Yeasin, M., Shen, D., Arnott, S., & Alain, C. (2019). Age-related hearing loss increases full-brain connectivity while reversing directed signaling within the dorsal-ventral pathway for speech. Brain Structure & Function, 224 (8), 2661-2676.
Butler, B., Lomber, S. (2013). Functional and structural changes throughout the auditory system following congenital and early-onset deafness: implications for hearing restoration. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7.