Christopher F Halpin

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Medical record documentation of patients' hearing loss by physicians
    Christopher F Halpin
    Department of Audiology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 24:517-9. 2009
  2. ncbi The tuning curve in clinical audiology
    Chris Halpin
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Audiol 11:56-64. 2002
  3. ncbi Hearing aids and cochlear damage: the case against fitting the pure tone audiogram
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 140:629-32. 2009
  4. ncbi Clinical implications of a damaged cochlea: pure tone thresholds vs information-carrying capacity
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 140:473-6. 2009
  5. ncbi Using audiometric thresholds and word recognition in a treatment study
    Chris Halpin
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Otol Neurotol 27:110-6. 2006
  6. ncbi Incidence of responses at the lower audiometric limits
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Am J Audiol 16:96-9. 2007
  7. ncbi Twenty years of audiology in a patient with Norrie disease
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, United States
    Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 72:1705-10. 2008
  8. ncbi Ear-canal reflectance, umbo velocity, and tympanometry in normal-hearing adults
    John J Rosowski
    Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Ear Hear 33:19-34. 2012
  9. ncbi Vascular defects and sensorineural deafness in a mouse model of Norrie disease
    Heidi L Rehm
    Neurosurgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Neurosci 22:4286-92. 2002
  10. ncbi Audiologic features of Norrie disease
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 114:533-8. 2005

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Medical record documentation of patients' hearing loss by physicians
    Christopher F Halpin
    Department of Audiology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 24:517-9. 2009
    ..No published studies have investigated this issue quantitatively...
  2. ncbi The tuning curve in clinical audiology
    Chris Halpin
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Audiol 11:56-64. 2002
    ....
  3. ncbi Hearing aids and cochlear damage: the case against fitting the pure tone audiogram
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 140:629-32. 2009
    ..We recommend that it is better to accommodate the damaged cochlea in these cases than to attempt to reverse-engineer the audiometric test results...
  4. ncbi Clinical implications of a damaged cochlea: pure tone thresholds vs information-carrying capacity
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 140:473-6. 2009
    ..We argue that word recognition testing at low vs high presentation levels provides a quantification of the cochlea's information-carrying capacity and is a useful predictor of word recognition limits with hearing aids...
  5. ncbi Using audiometric thresholds and word recognition in a treatment study
    Chris Halpin
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Otol Neurotol 27:110-6. 2006
    ..Second, to examine the outcomes when using two different types of criteria for significant change in a subject's word recognition score...
  6. ncbi Incidence of responses at the lower audiometric limits
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Am J Audiol 16:96-9. 2007
    ..e., -10 dB HL). Also, to present survey data to characterize the incidence of these responses...
  7. ncbi Twenty years of audiology in a patient with Norrie disease
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, United States
    Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 72:1705-10. 2008
    ..Affected individuals are born blind and develop progressive sensory loss with onset in adolescence. This disease is X-linked and has been associated with mutations of the NDP gene (Xp11.4)...
  8. ncbi Ear-canal reflectance, umbo velocity, and tympanometry in normal-hearing adults
    John J Rosowski
    Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Ear Hear 33:19-34. 2012
    ..This study compares measurements of ear-canal reflectance (ECR) to other objective measurements of middle ear function including audiometry, umbo velocity (VU), and tympanometry in a population of strictly defined normal-hearing ears...
  9. ncbi Vascular defects and sensorineural deafness in a mouse model of Norrie disease
    Heidi L Rehm
    Neurosurgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Neurosci 22:4286-92. 2002
    ..We propose that one of the principal functions of norrin in the ear is to regulate the interaction of the cochlea with its vasculature...
  10. ncbi Audiologic features of Norrie disease
    Chris Halpin
    Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 114:533-8. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: The cochlear mechanism-- failure of the stria vascularis-- accounts for some of the higher values in the wide distribution of speech scores in cases with similar pure tone audiograms...
  11. ncbi Audiologic and radiographic response of NF2-related vestibular schwannoma to erlotinib therapy
    Scott R Plotkin
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Yawkey 9E, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Nat Clin Pract Oncol 5:487-91. 2008
    ..A 48-year-old man presented to a neurologist with complaints of bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus. The patient was a member of a large family affected by neurofibromatosis type 2 and first noted hearing loss 10 years before presentation...
  12. ncbi Erlotinib for progressive vestibular schwannoma in neurofibromatosis 2 patients
    Scott R Plotkin
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, U S A
    Otol Neurotol 31:1135-43. 2010
    ..We sought to determine the activity of erlotinib for progressive vestibular schwannoma (VS) associated with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2)...
  13. ncbi Comparison of ear-canal reflectance and umbo velocity in patients with conductive hearing loss: a preliminary study
    Hideko H Nakajima
    Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Ear Hear 33:35-43. 2012
    ..We also sought to compare the diagnostic accuracy of umbo velocity (VU) measurements and measurements of ECR in the same group of patients...
  14. ncbi Tinnitus, diminished sound-level tolerance, and elevated auditory activity in humans with clinically normal hearing sensitivity
    Jianwen Wendy Gu
    Eaton Peabody Lab, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Neurophysiol 104:3361-70. 2010
    ....
  15. ncbi Oral vs intratympanic corticosteroid therapy for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a randomized trial
    Steven D Rauch
    Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    JAMA 305:2071-9. 2011
    ..Recently, many patients' symptoms have been managed with intratympanic steroid therapy. No satisfactory comparative effectiveness study to support this practice exists...
  16. ncbi Oral steroid treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a ten year retrospective analysis
    Chu-Yao Chen
    Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan
    Otol Neurotol 24:728-33. 2003
    ..Word recognition scores were significantly improved (p <.05) in the treated group. CONCLUSIONS: Application of steroid medication significantly improves the recovery outcomes in cases of Severe Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss...