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IRA M. VENTRY, Ph.D.; JOSEPH B. CHAIKLIN, Ph.D.; WILLIAM F. BOYLE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1961;73(6):727-731.

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Functional hearing loss may be defined as a decrease in measured auditory acuity without a known organic basis. Usually a diagnosis of functional hearing loss is made when there are significant intratest or intertest disagreements among audiometric assessments of a person's hearing acuity, and medical examination reveals that the discrepancies cannot be attributed to organic pathology, such as otitis media. Thus a diagnosis of functional hearing loss is based on a consideration of audiometric, otological, and other medical findings. Functional hearing loss is usually superimposed upon an organic auditory deficit, in which case it is referred to as a functional overlay. Functional hearing loss without an organic component appears to occur rarely.

One of the most commonly accepted indications of functional hearing loss is puretone threshold variability greater than ±5 db. in the absence of a known organic condition to account for such variability.^3-5 There are, however, a number . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

Drs. Ventry and Chaiklin are Assist. Chiefs, Audiology and Speech Pathology Clinic; Dr. Boyle was Senior Resident in Otorhinolaryngology, Veterans Administration Hospital. Dr. Boyle is now in private practice.

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Submitted for publication Sept. 15, 1960.

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