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Temporal alterations to central auditory processing without synaptopathy after lifetime exposure to environmental noise

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People are increasingly exposed to environmental noise through the cumulation of occupational and recreational activities, which is considered harmless to the auditory system, if the sound intensity remains <80 dB. However, recent evidence of noise-induced peripheral synaptic damage and central reorganizations in the auditory cortex, despite normal audiometry results, has cast doubt on the innocuousness of lifetime exposure to environmental noise. We addressed this issue by exposing adult rats to realistic and nontraumatic environmental noise, within the daily permissible noise exposure limit for humans (80 dB sound pressure level, 8 h/day) for between 3 and 18 months. We found that temporary hearing loss could be detected after 6 months of daily exposure, without leading to permanent hearing loss or to missing synaptic ribbons in cochlear hair cells. The degraded temporal representation of sounds in the auditory cortex after 18 months of exposure was very different from the effects observed after only 3 months of exposure, suggesting that modifications to the neural code continue throughout a lifetime of exposure to noise.
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hal-03325048 , version 1 (24-08-2021)

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Florian Occelli, Florian Hasselmann, Jérôme Bourien, Jean-Luc Puel, Nathalie Desvignes, et al.. Temporal alterations to central auditory processing without synaptopathy after lifetime exposure to environmental noise. Cerebral Cortex, 2021, pp.bhab310. ⟨10.1093/cercor/bhab310⟩. ⟨hal-03325048⟩
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