Subject: presbyacusis From: Wiebe Horst <j.w.horst@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:54:55 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi David, With respect to the question "What is presbyacusis" the following papers may be of interest to you: ROSEN, S., BERGMAN, M., PLESTER, D., EL-MOFTY, A., SATTI, M. H.: Pres-bycusis: Study of a Relatively Noise-free Population in the Sudan. Ann. Otol. 71, pp 727-743, 1962. and Marcos V. Goycoolea MD, PHD, Hortensia G. Goycoolea, Leonardo G. Rodriguez MD, Corina R. Farfan, Gumaro C. Martinez MD, Ricardo Vidal MD, Effect of life in industrialized societies on hearing in natives of easter island The Laryngoscope, 96, Issue 12, pages 1391–1396, 1986. With kind regards, Wiebe Horst