Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 mlitary / 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

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.